Local Four-Star Recruit Officially Visiting Tennessee Basketball This Weekend

While Tennessee basketball still has one scholarship to work with on its 2025-26 roster, but Rick Barnes and his staff have also begun turning their attention to the 2026 recruiting cycle.

Local four-star recruit Trey Thompson is arriving at Tennessee Saturday June 7 for an official visit that will last until Monday June 9, a source told RTI on Wednesday afternoon.

A standout at Greeneville High School in East Tennessee, Thompson ranks as a four-star recruit and the No. 131 player in the country according to the 247sports composite rankings. The 6-foot-8, 220-pound prospect also ranks as the No. 26 power forward and No. 5 player in the state of Tennessee in the 2026 recruiting cycle.

It’s one of two official visits that Thompson has scheduled for this summer. The low four-star will also officially visit Iowa later in June. He also visited Purdue back in November. Thompson had a strong spring on the AAU circuit, earning offers from Virginia, Iowa, Indiana, Connecticut, Kansas and others. Tennessee offered Thompson back in November.

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Thompson is the first 2026 recruit to officially visit Tennessee this summer though four-star wing Gage Workman also scheduled an official visit to Knoxville for later in June.

Rick Barnes and his staff have not landed a Volunteer State native out of high school since signing Knoxville native BJ Edwards in the 2022 recruiting cycle. Tennessee has landed Volunteer State native’s in the portal in recent years including Chaz Lanier and Ja’Kobi Gillespie.

Tennessee has yet to land a commitment in its 2026 recruiting class though that is little surprise given the early stages of the recruiting calendar. It’s also unclear at this point how many scholarships Tennessee will have to work with. For one, the pending House Settlement could expend the scholarship limit from 13 to 15 players.

The Vols also added five player recruiting class in the 2025 recruiting cycle with most of those players projection as multi-year developmental pieces. Tennessee has just three seniors on its 2025-26 roster — Felix Okpara, Ja’Kobi Gillespie, Amaree Abram — though at this point though Nate Ament projects as a one-and-done, and there will almost inevitably be some departures to the transfer portal.