KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – The University of Tennessee men’s basketball team is in the top five of each major national poll for the ninth time this season, all in the last 13 weeks.

Tennessee (22-5, 9-5) ascended one spot in both the Associated Press Top 25 Poll and the USA TODAY Coaches Poll, ranking fifth on each outlet’s list, as announced Monday afternoon.

Tenth-year head coach Rick Barnes has now led the Volunteers to an AP top-five position 36 times during his tenure, all in the last seven campaigns. Prior to his 2015 arrival, the program had 17 such nods in its history.

This is the 14th straight week the Volunteers are in the top eight in both polls. The 14-week AP top-10 streak is tied for their third-longest ledger ever. Four of the six double-digit streaks, including three of the four instances of 14-plus weeks, have come in the last seven years under Barnes.

Tennessee is in the AP top 10 for the 72nd time the Barnes era, after it had 28 such appearances in the 14 years (2001-15) before his hiring. This is also the 50th time in the last 53 poll releases—that mark dates to Nov. 28, 2022—Tennessee is in the AP top 15.

The Volunteers are in the AP top 25 for the 76th week in a row, a figure that stretches across four campaigns and dates to the 2021-22 preseason poll. The number is over double the previous program record of 37, recorded March 1999 to Feb. 2001. That 76-week streak is also good for the second-longest active count in the country, behind just Houston (102). No other program is at even 60-plus, while the closest SEC school is Kentucky with a 38-week mark that is sixth-longest nationally and 38 behind Tennessee.

In the Volunteers’ only outing last week, they claimed a 77-69 road win Saturday at seventh-ranked Texas A&M. After facing an early nine-point deficit, Tennessee came back to earn it second AP top-10 victory of the year behind a season-best 30 points from fifth-year guard Chaz Lanier, who went 8-of-13 from deep to tie for the second-most 3-point makes in a game ever by a Volunteer.

Tennessee registered 1,236 points in the AP Poll, an 89-point jump from last week. It totaled 610 in the Coaches Poll balloting, five more than it did last week.

The Volunteers are one of eight SEC programs in the top 25 of both polls, alongside top-ranked Auburn, third-ranked Florida, sixth-ranked Alabama, No. 12/11 Texas A&M, No. 14/16 Missouri, No. 17/23 Kentucky and No. 24 Mississippi State. Ole Miss is in the receiving votes section of both polls, while Vanderbilt is listed there in the AP Poll.

Tennessee continues action Tuesday at 9 p.m. ET, when it takes on LSU at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center in Baton Rouge, La., live on SEC Network.

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