RTI Instant Reaction: Tennessee Defeats South Carolina To Clinch SEC Title
Tennessee basketball clinched the outright regular season SEC Championship on Wednesday night by knocking off South Carolina 66-59 in Columbia. The Vols jumped out to an early lead and never looked back avenging their loss against South Carolina in Knoxville at the end of January. At that point, Tennessee was 5-2 in SEC play and […]
Three Quick Takeaways: Tennessee Powers Past South Carolina To Earn SEC Championship
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Tennessee basketball led wire-to-wire and held off a late South Carolina charge to knock off the Gamecocks 66-59 and earn the outright regular season SEC Championship on Wednesday night. The Vols defense was fantastic and Dalton Knecht carried the offense as the Vols avenged their loss earlier this season against the Gamecocks. Here’s […]
Tennessee Guard Dalton Knecht Splits SEC Player Of The Week Honors
Tennessee basketball guard Dalton Knecht split SEC Player of the Week honors with South Carolina’s Meechie Johnson after the Vols picked up two massive wins last week. Knecht 26 points, 3.5 rebounds and 1.5 steals over the course of Tennessee’s week as the Vols knocked off Auburn in Knoxville and Alabama in Tuscaloosa. But those […]
Dalton Knecht And Josiah-Jordan James’ Games Complementing Each Other, Tennessee Basketball
Dalton Knecht and Josiah-Jordan James are both super seniors. They’re both 6-foot-6 and weigh within 20 pounds of each other. But the duo have followed radically different paths to their fifth and final collegiate season. James is a former five-star recruit while Knecht came to Knoxville after stops at junior college and Northern Colorado. Their […]
Dalton Knecht Makes His Case For Player Of The Year In Tennessee’s Win Over Auburn
Tennessee basketball’s SEC Championship hopes were teetering with 12 minutes left in its 92-84 win over No. 11 Auburn on Wednesday night. The Tigers were on a 23-6 run and had turned a nine-point deficit into an eight-point lead. Tennessee’s offense was sputtering against KenPom‘s sixth best defense nationally. Then Dalton Knecht did it again. […]
RTI Instant Reaction: Breaking Down Tennessee Basketball’s Win Over Auburn
Tennessee basketball knocked off Auburn 92-84 on Wednesday night as they remained atop the SEC standings with a big home win. The Vols relied on their front court for offensive production in the first half as Jonas Aidoo scored 10 points and Tobe Awaka added six as Tennessee took a halftime lead. Tennessee quickly pushed […]
Everything Rick Barnes Said After Tennessee Knocked Off Auburn
Tennessee basketball remained in the top-spot in the SEC standings by knocking off Auburn 92-84 in Knoxville on Wednesday night. The Tigers led by as many as eight points in the second half before Dalton Knecht came alive and scored 27 second half points to propel Tennessee to the victory. Following the win, Tennessee coach […]
Three Quick Takeaways: Tennessee Earns Dominant Win Over Texas A&M
Tennessee basketball wasn’t at its best for the first 15 minutes of Saturday night’s matchup against Texas A&M. Then the Vols turned the burners on in a 86-51 victory. Tennessee used a massive run around halftime to take control of the game and coasted to a home victory thanks to big performances from Jonas Aidoo […]
Tennessee’s Dalton Knecht Lands as First-Round Pick in Recent Mock Draft
While Tennessee produced two first-round draft picks during the 2021 NBA Draft, the Vols didn’t have one in the 2022 and 2023 drafts. The Vols did have a second-round draft pick in each of the last two years, though, with Kennedy Chandler going 38th overall in 2022 and Julian Phillips going 35th overall in 2023. […]
Missouri HC Dennis Gates Says This Tennessee Team Is Rick Barnes’ Best
Tennessee basketball coach Rick Barnes is in his 37th season as a college basketball head coach. He’s coached 27 NCAA Tournament teams, four regular season conference championship team and one Final Four team. Missouri coach Dennis Gates thinks the 2023-24 Tennessee basketball team may be better than any of them. “What a great, great team […]
