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Tennessee basketball: Vols top 10 greatest players in the 2010s decade

By Caleb Calhoun

KNOXVILLE, TN - DECEMBER 29: Grant Williams #2 of the Tennessee Volunteers and Admiral Schofield #5 of the Tennessee Volunteers celebrate on the bench during the second half of the game between the Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles and the Tennessee Volunteers at Thompson-Boling Arena on December 29, 2018 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Tennessee won 96-53. (Photo by Donald Page/Getty Images)
KNOXVILLE, TN - DECEMBER 29: Grant Williams #2 of the Tennessee Volunteers and Admiral Schofield #5 of the Tennessee Volunteers celebrate on the bench during the second half of the game between the Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles and the Tennessee Volunteers at Thompson-Boling Arena on December 29, 2018 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Tennessee won 96-53. (Photo by Donald Page/Getty Images) /
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2016-2019. Jordan Bone. player. Pick Analysis. Guard. 4. 534. Scouting Report

Another three-star member of what was indisputably the most overachieving class in Tennessee basketball history, Jordan Bone joined Jordan Bowden in 2016, and Rick Barnes was looking at both to lead the backcourt. Well, Bone became a three-year star and the glue guy for the Vols at point guard. He was the guy who made their success go.

In his three years with Rocky Top, Bone averaged just under 10 points and over four assists a game. He managed to develop every year for Rocky Top. By his junior year, he became an All-SEC player, averaging 13.5 points a just under six assists a game on 35.5 percent shooting from three with a nearly three-to-one assist-to-turnover ratio.

Bone helped UT accomplish what Jordan Bowden and Lamonte Turner helped them do, winning a regular season SEC Championship in 2018, achieving a No. 1 ranking in 2019 and then making the Sweet Sixteen. Unlike Turner and Bowden, he left early for the NBA, which made sense as a 6’3″ athletic point guard who could do what he could do.

However, despite leaving early, his accomplishments for the Vols in this decade still exceeded Bowden’s and Turner’s. Bone was consistently the starting point guard while those two alternated as sixth-men, and the additional 11 (soon to be 12) games this season won’t be enough for them to surpass what Bone did. As a result, he’s higher on this list.

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