From Rocky Top Insider
"Sportsbook operator CG Technology released its college football conference championship odds on Monday, and Tennessee has decent odds at 8/1 – tying for fourth in the league with LSU and Ole Miss and trailing only Alabama, Auburn and Georgia.That’s an impressive vote of confidence for the up-and-coming Vols after they haven’t won more than three conference games in any given season since 2009. The Vols also haven’t played in the SEC Championship Game since 2007, and haven’t won the conference since 1998.Read more at Rocky Top Insider"
From The Knoxville News Sentinel
"Chris Shumate and Willie Carmichael are on the same team again.Shumate, a former Tennessee basketball assistant coach, has been hired as an assistant coach at Western Kentucky, the school announced Monday.Read more at The Knoxville News Sentinel"
From The Times Free Press
"Some five months before his first college basketball game, Shembari Phillips is far from a finished product as a basketball player.One attribute the Tennessee freshman guard isn’t lacking is confidence.The same attribute Phillips showed in his decision to stick with the Volunteers amid their coaching transition from Donnie Tyndall to Rick Barnes was on display on Monday night, when he scored 26 points to lead his team to a victory in the opening game of the annual Pilot Rocky Top League.When the 6-foot-4, 185-pound Phillips signed with Tennessee out of Atlanta’s Wheeler High School in November, he expected he’d play for Tyndall, Tennessee’s coach at the time.Read more at The Times Free Press"