Today On Rocky Top: Josh Richardson Earns All-SEC Honors
By Zach Ragan
From The Times Free Press
"Very early in his tenure as Tennessee’s basketball coach, Donnie Tyndall was unsure if the best player he was inheriting from last year’s team would stay.That player, Josh Richardson, was coming off an NCAA tournament in which he’d scored 77 points and flashed an offensive ability that made for a nice pairing with his established defensive prowess, and he could have completed his degree and been eligible to play anywhere this season.“There were rumors, like any time you take over a job, that he was thinking about leaving and maybe transferring,” Tyndall recalled late last week. “I’d even heard specific schools, like Indiana. You never know what’s true or not true.”The accolades that came Richardson’s way Tuesday only confirmed what Tyndall already knew.Read more at The Times Free Press"
From The Daily Beacon
"Tennessee has witnessed the SEC’s unpredictability all season.Saturday’s loss to South Carolina, a team the Vols beat in Columbia on Jan. 20, provided just the latest piece of evidence.Odd as it may be, though, that defeat is also the reason Donnie Tyndall is not hanging his head as the Volunteers enter the SEC Tournament on Thursday.“There’s not a team in our league that we don’t feel like we can beat, and there’s not a team in our league that we don’t feel like can beat us,” the first-year Tennessee head coach said. “It’s that even of a playing field.“No one is looking ahead, I can assure you of that. We have our hands full with Vanderbilt, but I do think outside of Kentucky, everybody would say top to bottom that it’s pretty wide open.”Read more at The Daily Beacon"
From The Knoxville News Sentinel
"Andrew Lee pulled double duty for Tennessee’s baseball team Tuesday night in a 5-2 win over East Tennessee State before 1,454 at Lindsey Nelson Stadium, earning a save with two innings of relief and collecting two RBIs as the designated hitter.But it was a player who didn’t score or knock in a run that most excited coach Dave Serrano.“I think (Nathaniel) Maggio is the guy of the night,” Serrano said when asked about Lee. “I was really excited the way Maggio swung the bat.”Maggio entered the game hitting just .211 with two RBIs, but went 3-for-3 against ETSU, sparking hope for a lineup that needs protection behind clean-up hitter Christin Stewart, who homered in the eighth inning.Read more at The Knoxville News Sentinel"