KNOXVILLE, Tenn. –Dalton Knecht of the University of Tennessee men’s basketball team is the 2023-24 SEC Player of the Year, while Zakai Zeigler is the SEC Defensive Player of the Year, as selected by the league’s head coaches and announced Monday afternoon by the conference office. Both Knecht and Zeigler also received First Team All-SEC plaudits, while Jonas Aidoo collected…… MORE
Tennessee’s Rickea Jackson has been named to the five-player SEC Women’s Basketball All-Tournament Team, the league office announced on Sunday afternoon. Jackson, a 6-foot-2, fifth-year forward from Detroit, Mich., made the conference all-tourney team for the second straight season and for the third time in her career. In addition to her back-to-back honors as a Lady Vol, she…… MORE
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – A pair of grand slams from Sophia Nugent and Zaida Puni catapulted the No. 8 Lady Vols to an 11-0 run-rule win over Ohio State on Sunday afternoon at Sherri Parker Lee Stadium. It is the first time since April 16, 2019, that Tennessee has hit two grand slams in the same game. Tennessee (18-4) was perfect during its…… MORE
Game Recap: Baseball | March 10, 2024 KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – No. 7/8 Tennessee rallied to complete the sweep of Illinois after falling behind 3-0 in Sunday’s series finale at Lindsey Nelson Stadium. Clutch home runs from Hunter Ensley, Blake Burke and Robin Villeneuve, combined with a stellar relief outing from Nate Snead, helped the Volunteers battle back and extend their winning streak…… MORE
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – As the SEC’s outright regular season champion, the University of Tennessee men’s basketball team will be the No. 1 seed in the 2024 SEC Tournament at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn. The official bracket released by the league office late Saturday night features the Volunteers as the top seed, with second-seeded Kentucky, third-seeded…… MORE
Game Recap: Men’s Basketball | March 09, 2024 KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – The University of Tennessee men’s basketball team fell to No. 15/13 Kentucky, 85-81, Saturday evening at a sold-out, over-capacity Food City Center in the final game of the 2023-24 regular season. Fifth-year guard Dalton Knecht, in his final home outing, registered a career-best 40 points, the 16th…… MORE
Game Recap: Baseball | March 09, 2024 KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – No. 7/8 Tennessee secured another series win with a 24-1 thrashing of Illinois on Saturday afternoon at Lindsey Nelson Stadium, recording season highs in runs and hits (20) to run its winning streak to 14 games. UT scored two or more runs in seven of the eight…… MORE
Game Recap: Women’s Basketball | March 09, 2024 | Eric Trainer GREENVILLE, S.C. – No. 5 seed Tennessee overcame a 23-point first-half deficit and took a two-point lead with 24 seconds remaining before South Carolina’s Kamilla Cardoso banked-in a three-pointer as time expired to give the top-seeded and No. 1-ranked Gamecocks a 74-73 win on Saturday night in…… MORE
Game Recap: Softball | March 09, 2024 KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Solid pitching combined with timely hitting propelled No. 8 Tennessee to a 5-0 shutout win over Ohio State at Sherri Parker Lee Stadium on Saturday night. The victory is Tennessee’s ninth shutout of the season and its third straight. Graduate pitcher Payton Gottshall – a Massillon, Ohio, native –…… MORE
Game Recap: Softball | March 08, 2024 KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Junior newcomer Laura Mealer made a little history Friday night at Sherri Parker Lee Stadium as she powered the No. 8 Lady Vols to a pair of wins over Missouri State and South Dakota – 16-0 and 6-0, respectively. In game one versus Missouri State, Mealer went 3-for-3 at…… MORE
