ESPN has no love for Tennessee's mens basketball team. The latest bracketology has Tennessee in the last four out. CBS Sports is showing love for Tennessee,their bracketology still has Tennessee as a #12 seed playing Iowa State in Dayton. I don't think ESPN likes UT in any sport.
It's not ESPN. It's just Lunardi. And I don't blame any bracket guru for not including UT . . . we are right on the edge.
FWIW, here is a collection of predictions:
http://www.bracketmatrix.com/ . UT is the last team in based on the composite seeding, and is included in 63 of 87 brackets.