Tennessee Rumors & News

ESPN "Kennedy Chandler, the top-ranked point guard in the 2021 ESPN 100, committed to Tennessee on Friday, giving the Volunteers a five-star recruit for the third straight year. Chandler, who is ranked No. 12 overall in the ESPN 100, chose Rick Barnes' program over a..." August 14

Rocky Top Talk "As expected, Yves Pons is set to return to Tennessee for his final season in Knoxville. Sean Farnham broke the news this afternoon, reporting that Pons has withdrawn his name from the 2020 NBA Draft. Pons declared for the draft back in April, doing exactly..." August 04

Knoxville News Sentinel "Multiple Tennessee athletes tested positive for COVID-19 in a wave of testing following the Fourth of July weekend, a UT spokesperson confirmed. The positive results came from multiple Tennessee sports after UT opted to do another round of testing after the holiday and..." July 15

USA Today "The carpool from Georgia to Knoxville for Pat Summitt’s funeral was filled with reflection and reminiscing. Seven former Lady Vols cried and laughed as they shared memories during the drive of their former coach. Eventually, the conversation turned to race. Six members..." June 29

Larry Brown Sports "Grant Williams chose to celebrate Father’s Day very fittingly on Sunday. Williams, the former Tennessee star and current Boston Celtics forward, took to Twitter to troll his old SEC rival school Vanderbilt with a hilarious tweet implying that he was their father. Take a..." June 22

CBS Sports "Former Tennessee coach Donnie Tyndall has found his way back into college coaching. After a five-year layoff with pit stops across the professional ranks, the ex-Vols coach was announced Thursday as the new head coach at Chipola College, a junior college in Florida that competes in..." June 19

Winston-Salem Journal "Coach Steve Forbes has added a transfer that he and his staff are familiar with for the second time in the last couple of weeks. Jalen Johnson announced Monday that he’ll join Wake Forest’s men’s basketball program as a graduate transfer after playing at Tennessee..." June 09

CBS Sports "The youth of college basketball has grown in importance as the one-and-done era has matured. Players are no longer consistently staying four years and winning championships, in part because it's no longer a prerequisite to success. 18- and 19-year-olds can make an immediate impact for..." June 03

CBS Sports "Daishen Nix's recent decision to play for the NBA's G League rather than join UCLA and play college basketball next season has been called a possible "sea-change moment" for the sport -- and not in a good way. That after fellow five-star prospect Jalen Green also..." May 08