Tennessee suffered a dube digit preseason loss to Xavier on Thursday night.
The top of the ACC is poised to make a resurgence this season, but the middle of the conference is also as meaty as ever.
Carruth scored a game-high 22 points, while Brandon Weston added 19 as the Gold team rode a huge second half to a 76-64 victory Tuesday night.
Cameron Barnes, a four-star forward in the 2027 class out of Lee's Summit, Missouri, has committed to Mizzou basketball.
Leading the team in points and rebounds a season ago, an expected transfer that was one of the best in the cycle will have finished his career on the Plains.