Tennessee basketball’s top five players who won the most
Scouting Report. Forward. 2006-2010. player. 534. Pick Analysis. Wayne Chism. 1
Wayne Chism’s final team with Tennessee basketball had three other scholarship seniors in Tyler Smith, J.P. Prince and Bobby Maze. However, Smith was a transfer and then was dismissed, Prince was also a transfer, and Maze came from junior college.
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Ironically, Chism arrived on Rocky Top as a four-star with four other freshmen, but two of them transferred, and two players who were five-stars ranked above him, Duke Crews and Ramar Smith, were dismissed after two season. Chism is the only guy in the Bruce Pearl era who was a four-year player and was a regular starter for at least one season. Only Brian Williams came close.
As a result, this guy is the winningest Vol of all time. Anybody who played four years in the Pearl era and qualified for this list. Chism, however, also played in the most successful four-year run of the Pearl era. He committed after Pearl’s first year with the Vols, when he made the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
During Chism’s four years, he made four NCAA Tournaments, three Sweet Sixteens and the first Elite Eight in school history as a senior. He also was part of an SEC regular season championship and the school’s first No. 1 ranking and 30-plus win season in history in 2007-2008. Oh, and he reached 20 wins every year with two top 10 finishes and three top 25 finishes.
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Simply put, nobody won for Tennessee basketball more than Chism. That he was a starter for three and a half years only further boosts his value, as he clearly had a huge hand in this team’s success, averaging double figures his final two years and never failing to average fewer than nine points in any season.