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Ranking Tennessee Vols sports worst affected by coronavirus ending season

By Caleb Calhoun

KNOXVILLE, TN - FEBRUARY 2: Cheerleaders of the Tennessee Volunteers pregame against the Kentucky Wildcats in a game at Thompson-Boling Arena on February 2, 2016 in Knoxville, Tennessee. (Photo by Patrick Murphy-Racey/Getty Images)
KNOXVILLE, TN - FEBRUARY 2: Cheerleaders of the Tennessee Volunteers pregame against the Kentucky Wildcats in a game at Thompson-Boling Arena on February 2, 2016 in Knoxville, Tennessee. (Photo by Patrick Murphy-Racey/Getty Images) /
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COVID-19 outbreak ended 15 Tennessee Vols athletic programs prematurely for 2019-2020. Here is how those sports rank based on who lost the most.

Even fall sports weren’t spared from the coronavirus outbreak, as Tennessee football had to suspend recruiting and spring practice while canceling the spring game, and Pro Days were canceled a well. However, the winter and spring sports for the Tennessee Vols took a much bigger hit overall.

It all became confirmed when the SEC released a statement making clear that all regular season and postseason conference and non-conference competition would be canceled for the remainder of the 2019-2020 athletic year. That means everything is done.

As a result, for the first time since World War II, swaths of sporting events and seasons have been suspended or canceled due to a major event. Sure, specific events have been postponed due to major incidents, such as devastating storms or national tragedies.

However, it’s very rare when entire seasons are suspended, and that was the case here. But for the Tennessee Vols, there were levels to how bad the news was. After all, not every sport that had its season canceled was in a good place.

In this post we’re going to rank all 15 varsity sports with Rocky Top by who lost the most due to these cancellations. Some programs were really on a roll and looked like national title contenders. Others were falling apart toward the end of the year.

All of them, to be fair, had something to lose with these cancellations, so it’s not good news for any of them. Even the ones somewhat struggling were in contention for postseason play, even if they had to do a little more work to get there. That makes this a rough loss for everybody.

Whose loss was the roughest, though? Which program was most clearly robbed by what happened? Let’s go ahead and break that down here. This our countdown of the 15 Tennessee Vols winter and spring sports that had the most to lose by the NCAA cancelling their seasons due to the coronavirus outbreak.

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