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Tennessee basketball: Jordan Bowden, Lamonte Turner five best combined games with Vols

By Caleb Calhoun

COLUMBUS, OHIO - MARCH 24: Lamonte Turner #1 and Jordan Bowden #23 of the Tennessee Volunteers react after defeating the Iowa Hawkeyes 83-77 in the Second Round of the NCAA Basketball Tournament at Nationwide Arena on March 24, 2019 in Columbus, Ohio. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)
COLUMBUS, OHIO - MARCH 24: Lamonte Turner #1 and Jordan Bowden #23 of the Tennessee Volunteers react after defeating the Iowa Hawkeyes 83-77 in the Second Round of the NCAA Basketball Tournament at Nationwide Arena on March 24, 2019 in Columbus, Ohio. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images) /
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Lamonte Turner and Jordan Bowden had great careers with Tennessee basketball. Here are their five best combined performances with the Volunteers.

Senior Day arrives on Rocky Top Saturday, and Tennessee basketball only has one senior on the roster who will play. However, the Vols started the year with two seniors, and both of them deserve recognition for their contributions to the program.

Jordan Bowden and Lamonte Turner both began playing in 2016-2017, the same year Grant Williams and Jordan Bone arrived. Bowden was a freshman with them, while Turner arrived in 2015-2016 with Admiral Schofield and Kyle Alexander but took a redshirt.

Although Williams, Bone, Schofield and Alexander left after last year, Turner and Bowden were part of that rotation that took Tennessee basketball to new heights. They came back this year to lead the program, and both surpassed the 1,000-point mark in the same game last fall.

Now, this season has not gone the way people expected. Turner had to get season-ending shoulder surgery before SEC play began. Josiah-Jordan James, a five-star guard who was supposed to help offset the other key losses, has battled injuries all year. Redshirt freshman transfer Uros Plavsic didn’t receiver an NCAA eligibility waiver until after Turner was lost.

This forced Rick Barnes to reshuffle his lineup consistently. But his team still managed to get to the end of the regular season still in the running for the NCAA Tournament. Now, with their final home game being against the Auburn Tigers, we have to honor those two seniors.

In this post, we’re going to look at the times Turner and Bowden came together to lead the Vols to resounding victories. Until this year, they usually alternated between being the starter and the scoring punch off the bench. As a result, they usually played great in different games.

But there were times when both players were stars, and those times deserve recognition here. So let’s take a trip down Memory Lane with these two. Here are the five greatest combined performances that Jordan Bowden and Lamonte Turner had with Tennessee basketball.

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