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Ten Ideas for Non-Conference Scheduling in Basketball
While we’ve been kicking around ideas for Tennessee’s non-conference future in football and looking at what the rest of the league has done in that department, Tennessee’s basketball team announced two games for next year. The Vols have a neutral site date with Gonzaga and a visit from West Virginia […]
Gameday Today: When Al Wilson gets hyped, it’s time to get hyped
Vols stuff worth reading today.
Vols hoops hits No. 3 in CBSSports’ preseason Top 25
The Vols are No. 3 in a national Top 25 list.
Fore to Play One: Tennessee Basketball Gets Important Transfer in Richmond Point Guard
Any piece basketball coach Rick Barnes can add to his 2018-19 basketball team that will play critical minutes on a team that should make a deep run in the NCAA tournament is important. That’s why Monday night’s news that graduate transfer point guard Khwan Fore of Richmond was big news. […]
Major Vol Hoops Roster Developments Make the Future Look Even Brighter
From Thursday to Sunday there were some relatively significant developments for the Tennessee Basketball program, all of which were positive: 1) News broke that end of the rotation guard Chris Darrington would be transferring, thereby opening another scholarship for Coach Rick Barnes to work with, 2) The esteemed Rob Lewis […]
The Next Step for SEC Basketball
2017-18 saw the deepest SEC of all-time, with eight NCAA Tournament teams breaking the old conference record of six. The championship banner Tennessee and Auburn will hang is the greatest testament to the quality of their seasons. Seven of those eight tournament teams had a favorable seed in the opening […]
Should Tennessee Shoot More Threes Next Year?
Earlier this week Dylan took a look at how Tennessee might adapt its offensive philosophy next season. It’s a great question: should the Vols continue to rely on their physicality and inside presence, or look to space the floor even more with better three-point shooting? The 2017-18 Vols were not […]
Will Rick Barnes Adapt His Offensive Philosophy Next Season?
The Ringer has a really interesting piece about how while there are very few future NBA players in the Final Four, all four teams are running NBA systems (i.e., spreading the floor with virtually all five players on the court as three-point threats). It speaks to a few things about […]
Looking Ahead to 2018-2019 II: 2017-18 Bench Can Take 2018-19 Team to Next Level
Looking at Tennessee’s projected roster for the 2018-2019 basketball season, it is truly striking how young the team is and therefore how much improvement can be expected. Further illustrating that fact is that all but one of the returning bench players were freshmen (true or redshirt), this past season and […]