They’re not the top dogs yet but you can bet you’re ass the Volunteers will savor this moment as the No.1 team of the nation.

The question now is, can Tennessee hold on to the No.1 spot with the 2008 March Madness bracket tournament merely a few more weeks away? Of course, they’re hoping but with powerhouse teams from North Carolina and UCLA breeding down their necks, they probably know deep down inside that losing the No.1 spot to those teams is inevitable.

That won’t stop the Tennessee Volunteers from savoring the moment though. After all, days like these doesn’t come by often in Tennessee.

Hell, this No.1 ranking they just received from college basketball coaches is the first one they got… IN SCHOOL HISTORY, so you can just imagine how happy these guys are at this point of the college basketball year.

‘’No.1’s great,'’ Tennessee Volunteers star guard Chris Lofton said Saturday, ‘’but we want to be No.1 at the end of the year.'’

Of course kid, who doesn’t? According to the Associated Press poll, the Tennessee Volunteers have beaten a No.1 team only once, that’s the 55-54 win over No.1 South Carolina on December 6, 1969. It is only fitting that they beat another No.1 team this season, beating the Memphis Tigers last weekend, to get their first ever No.1 ranking.

Oh yes, in case you didn’t get it, the Volunteers actually beat then undefeated Memphis Tigers last weekend.

The loss halted Memphis’ winning streaks of 47 games on its home court. The Tigers’ last home defeat came Jan. 2, 2006 against Texas, and 45 regular-season games.

The North Carolina Tar Heels jumped to the No.2 spot after Nos.4 and 5, that’s the Duke Blue Devils and the Kansas Jayhawks, were beaten by unranked opponents.

The now IMPERFECT Memphis Tigers sit at No.3 while the UCLA Bruins and the Texas Longhorns sit at No.4 and No.5 respectively.

Who will win the 2007-08 NCAA College Basketball Championship? Sportsbetting.com has the odds.

North Carolina Tar Heels 6-1

UCLA Bruins 9-2

Memphis Tigers 6-1

Duke Blue Devils 9-1

Ohio State Buckeyes 100-1

Florida Gators 100-1

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