WATCH: Tennessee Basketball Practice Highlights, Gainey & Phillips Interviews
Coming off of their victory over Florida Gulf Coast on Wednesday night in Knoxville, the Tennessee basketball team hit the court on Friday for practice. The Vols won’t have a game for a few days as they prepare for the Battle 4 Atlantis in The Bahamas on Thanksgiving week. Prior to the practice, Tennessee associate […]
Tennessee Basketball Practice Observations: Nov. 3
Tennessee basketball held its final preseason practice open to the media Thursday ahead of Monday’s season opener against Tennessee Tech. The Vols got up-and-down the court, mostly pairing its top seven players against the rest of the roster while also working on press and zone defense. Let’s start with Josiah-Jordan James who did more work […]
Takeaways From Rick Barnes’ First Preseason Media Availability
Tennessee men’s basketball coach Rick Barnes met with the media Wednesday, a day after the Vols’ officially began their preseason practice. It marks the first time Barnes talked with the media ahead of the 2022-23 season. The eighth-year head coach discussed his newcomers and his takeaways on the Vols just under six weeks away from […]
Five Tennessee Basketball Questions As Preseason Practice Begins
Tennessee basketball begins preseason practice today with its season opener against Tennessee Tech just under six weeks away. The Vols are coming off a strong 27-8 (14-4 SEC) season that saw the Big Orange finish second in the SEC regular season race before winning the SEC Tournament and falling to Michigan in the Round of […]
Former Vol Joining Tennessee Basketball Coaching Staff
Former Tennessee basketball walk on Lucas Campbell is joining the Vols’ support staff as the director of recruiting, the Knoxville News Sentinel’s Mike Wilson first reported and a Tennessee spokesperson confirmed to RTI Tuesday. As Tennessee’s director of recruiting, Campbell oversees on campus visits for recruits as well as recruiting travel for the Vols’ coaching […]
First Look At Tennessee Newcomers As Summer Practice Begins
Tennessee basketball’s summer practices are underway at Pratt Pavilion. All three of the Vols’ prep signees as well as Indiana State transfer Tyreke Key are on campus going through workouts. The Vols released a summer workout video giving us our first look at the newcomers in Tennessee orange. back like we never left pic.twitter.com/RWhoEgMuJO — […]
Tracking Tennessee Basketball’s Roster Movement As Calendar Turns To June
The new era of college athletics is here and that includes radically changing rosters season-to-season. No sport greater represents the modern roster movement than college basketball where the 13-scholarship players leads to major turnover year-after-year. A season after having seven newcomers, Tennessee basketball had six open scholarships this offseason. Even with nearly half the roster […]
Santiago Vescovi Withdraws From NBA Draft, Returning To UT For Senior Season
Tennessee shooting guard Santiago Vescovi is returning to Knoxville for his senior season after withdrawing from the 2022 NBA Draft, Stadium’s Jeff Goodman first reported and Vescovi later confirmed on Friday. “Run it back turbo,” Vescovi commented on his Instagram post. Vescovi declared for the NBA Draft while retaining his eligibility in late March to […]
Vol Commit Julian Phillips Talks Rick Barnes’ Faith and NBA Credibility at Tennessee
The Vols received a huge recruiting boost in mid-May when five-star wing Julian Phillips officially announced his commitment to Tennessee. The South Carolina native was originally an LSU commit but ended up reopening his recruitment after Will Wade and his staff were fired. Tennessee was one of the final schools in the conversation when Phillips […]
Tennessee Basketball Sitting at Top 15 Ranking After Big Recruiting Month
Tennessee Basketball has been firing on all cylinders in the recruiting department in the last month. Heading into the spring, Tennessee only had one addition to the roster in four-star point guard BJ Edwards from Knoxville. However, in late April, the Vols were able to add a commitment from Indiana State transfer Tyreke Key. Then, […]
