We're Number 1!?!?!?!

Over the weekend I watched the UT Vols become the #1 team in the country. In basketball. Men's basketball.

What's that got to do with faith? Evidently, hell decided to freeze over the weekend, too.

As a lifelong hoops junkie and University of Tennessee fan, normally March is a time to talk about the football team's Spring Game, not be concerned with hardwood tournament seedings. I was too young to catch "The Ernie & Bernie" show, so for the most part, following UT hoops has been brutal. Sure, there have been some highlights, like Dale Ellis, Dyron Nix, Ron Slay and definitely Allan Houston, but for the most part UT men's basketball has been a vast wasteland of suckitude.

40 point beatdowns by Kentucky.

5-22 seasons.

JERRY "If you don't like it you can go shop at K-Mart" GREEN!?!?

All of this has been complicated by the fact that my father-in-law is a rabid Kentucky fan. So there has been no escaping the reality of how woeful our program has been. CBS Sport columinist, Clay Travis, has felt my pain and writes about it in a recent article. In it, he talks about how all the misery ended a few years ago when UT hired Bruce Pearl - who Travis says is now "the second most popular Jewish man in East Tennessee next to Jesus."

He may have a point. After witnessing UT beat an undefeated Memphis team on the road to become the #1 team in the country, Pearl if nothing else has resurrected a program that had been dead for years. And while I'm entirely prepared that Vandy may beat us Tuesday and make our reign at #1 a short one, it's a great time to celebrate being a Vol. Or as the Psalmist said:

"Let us sing to the Lord; Let us make a joyful noise...."
-Psalm 95:1

Amen!