What Tennessee AC Rod Clark Said Before The Vols Host South Carolina
Tennessee basketball assistant coach Rod Clark met with the local media on Monday afternoon before the Vols host a surging South Carolina team at Thompson-Boling Arena at Food City Center on Tuesday night. Clark discussed where South Carolina has improved compared to last season, how challenging it is to defend Dalton Knecht and much more. […]
WATCH: Tennessee’s Santiago Vescovi and Rod Clark Preview South Carolina
Tennessee will be back on the court in Knoxville this Tuesday evening as the Vols host South Carolina inside the Food City Center. The Gamecocks, one of the conference’s more positively surprising teams this season, will enter the game with a 17-3 overall record with three straight wins. Tennessee, on the other hand, will look […]
Tennessee Freshmen Developing Important For Home Stretch Of Non Conference Schedule
After playing top 20 KenPom teams in five of its first nine games, Tennessee basketball faces a tame four-game stretch to close out non conference play. Tennessee hosts Georgia Southern on Tuesday night before traveling to San Antonio to face an average North Carolina State team. The Vols then return home for matchups against Tarleton […]
WATCH: Rod Clark, Cade Phillips Preview Tennessee’s Matchup Against Illinois
No. 17 Tennessee will host No. 20 Illinois in a big college basketball non-conference matchup on Saturday in Knoxville. The Vols are looking for their second straight win after dropping three straight Top 17 games while the Fighting Illini work to build on their five-game winning streak in what is projected to be a rowdy […]
What Tennessee AC Rod Clark Said Before Tennessee Hosts Illinois
Tennessee basketball assistant coach Rod Clark met with the media on Friday afternoon before the Vols host No. 20 Illinois at Thompson-Boling Arena at Food City Center for a marquee non conference matchup. The top 20 showdown is the first big home game of Tennessee’s season and pits two of the oldest, most physically imposing […]
Tennessee Assistant Coach Suspended Two Games Due To Violation
Tennessee assistant basketball coach Rod Clark is serving a two-game suspension to open the 2023-24 season due to NCAA violations, KnoxNews Mike Wilson first reported and Tennessee confirmed Monday evening. “The University and assistant men’s basketball coach Rod Clark are working collaboratively with the NCAA to address a violation,” Tennessee wrote in a statement Monday […]
Five Hour Commutes And 19th Century Literature: Tobe Awaka Is The SEC’s Most Intriguing Man
To media and fans, Tennessee sophomore Tobe Awaka is soft spoken, thoughtful and bordering on shy. The first thing Awaka’s teammates say about him is that he’s funny. The second is that he’s smart. Awaka is a different beast on the court, using every bit of his 6-foot-8, 250-pound frame to attack the glass with […]
Four-Star Aleks Alston Talks Tennessee Basketball Visit
Class of 2025 forward Aleks Alston unofficially visited Tennessee basketball last weekend for the first time. The four-star recruit took in a basketball practice and Tennessee football’s win over Texas A&M at Neyland Stadium. The Chicago native’s visit to Tennessee was his first visit to a SEC school and the facilities and atmosphere around campus […]
How Cade Phillips Made Tennessee Basketball Reconsider Redshirting Him
Tennessee basketball’s plan for power forward Cade Phillips’ freshman year was simple and straightforward. “There was no doubt when Cade came that we, we said from the beginning, we talked to him about he was gonna redshirt,” Tennessee head coach Rick Barnes said earlier this week. That plan made even more sense when Phillips missed […]
Quartet Of Tennessee Basketball Players Sidelined In Early Stages Of Preseason Practice
Tennessee basketball is a week into its preseason practice and already has a myriad of players sidelined for numerous reasons. Point guard Zakai Zeigler, small forward D.J. Jefferson and power forwards J.P. Estrella and Tobe Awaka are all currently sidelined and were not full participants in Tuesday afternoon’s practice open to the media. Zeigler is […]