Tennessee and Florida Atlantic face off in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament on Thursday, March 23. The game will be live streamed on Sling, which offers half off the first month.

The White family text chain is relatively quiet right now.

No talking trash. No picking sides. Just a handful of “good luck” sentiments before arguably the biggest basketball game involving a handful of households with the same surname.

But it doesn’t make the Sweet 16 matchup between fourth-seeded Tennessee (25-10) and ninth-seeded Florida Atlantic (33-3) on Thursday night any less awkward for brothers and fellow athletic directors Danny (UT) and Brian White (FAU).

As two of five children of longtime college administrator Kevin White, whose stops as AD include Tulane (1991-96), Arizona State (1996-2000), Notre Dame (2000-08) and Duke (2008-21), they know the cost of winning and losing. And they realize one of them will be on the wrong end of the scoreboard at Madison Square Garden.

Three of the five White children followed in their father’s footsteps and became college athletic administrators: Brian landed at FAU in 2018 after several years at Missouri; Danny took the Tennessee job after a decade at Buffalo and Central Florida; and Mariah Chappell is an assistant AD at Southern Methodist University.

When is Tennessee-Florida Atlantic?

Tennessee and Florida Atlantic face off in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament at 8 p.m. (9 p.m. ET) on Thursday, March 23.

Streaming options

SlingTV

SlingTV is one of the cheaper live streaming services. It offers three different channel packages for its users: Sling Orange, Sling Blue and Sling Orange + Blue.

Sling Blue, which is offering half off the $40 a month for the first month, streams TruTV.

What TV channel is game on?

Tennessee and Florida Atlantic will be broadcast on TBS.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.