re: Better Basketball Program: Memphis or Tennessee

All Time: Memphis

As far as which program is easier to win at now, I think it is essentially a wash. You can win big at both schools in the modern era.

Here are numbers since 2000 which is really when VOLS basketball woke up from a couple decades of total incompetence. This also includes both schools greatest long term sustained runs which essentially happened simultaneously

Head to Head: 6-6
Final Fours: Memphis 1, Tennessee 0
Elite 8s: Memphis 3, Tennessee 1
Sweet 16s: Tennessee 6, Memphis 4
Tournament Appearances: Tennessee 11, Memphis 10
Weeks Ranked: Tennessee 140, Memphis 137
Weeks Ranked #1: Tennessee 5, Memphis 5
All Americans: Tennessee 2, Memphis 2