With tonight’s win,
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became the first program with three wins over Kentucky at Rupp Arena during the John Calipari era.
Rick Barnes is the only active head coach in the nation with three wins as an opponent at Rupp Arena.
Tennessee is the only school to have hosted ESPN College GameDay for football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball.
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With tonight’s road win over South Carolina,
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ties its longest winning streak in program history at 15 games.
Tennessee also completed a perfect January for the first time since the 1944-45 season.
Grant Williams is just the 10th player in conference history to win SEC Player of the Year in back-to-back years and the first since Arkansas' Corliss Williamson won the award in 1994 and 1995.
He joins as Bernard King and Dale Ellis as Tennessee's only two-time winners.
Darrell Taylor's four-sack performance today against Kentucky is just the third four-sack game in Tennessee history, joining Reggie White (1983 vs. Citadel) and Corey Miller (2013 at Kentucky).
Darrell Taylor's three sacks today against Georgia are the most by a Vol in a single game since Derek Barnett also had three against South Carolina on Oct. 29, 2016.
With three players invited to the NBA Combine,
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is tied for the most players selected of any program in the nation.
Admiral Schofield is one of only five seniors who received an invite.
Rick Barnes has led
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to three 25+ win seasons—more than any other coach in program history.
2017-18 - 26 wins
2018-19 - 31 wins
2021-22 - 27 wins
Tennessee was one of three Division I schools to make the NCAA Tournament for men’s and women’s basketball, volleyball, soccer, baseball and softball during the 2018-19 year.
For the fourth time in five years,
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will finish their season with single-digit losses.
Tennessee is the only SEC men’s basketball program during that span that can make that claim.
SEC Sixth Man of the Year candidate Jordan Bowden is averaging 15.3 ppg during SEC play, shooting 41 percent from three-point range and 90 percent from the free-throw line.
He also ranks third in the SEC and 10th nationally with a 131.2 offensive rating, according to
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.
With 676 yards Saturday,
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recorded the fifth-most yards of total offense in a single game in program history.
Tennessee has eclipsed 600 yards of total offense in a game 17 times in program history—three have come during the Josh Heupel era.
This week’s updated AP Top 25 rankings both included
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(No. 20) and
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(No. 23), making Tennessee one of just three schools to have its men’s and women’s programs be both undefeated and ranked.
For the first time in program history, Tennessee has had three players each record more than 100 receiving yards in the same game.
Josh Palmer - 5 rec, 115 yds
Marquez Callaway - 6 rec, 110 yds, TD
Jauan Jennings - 4 rec, 103 yds, TD
Entering their respective senior seasons, Jordan Bowden (941) and Lamonté Turner (951) are each approaching 1,000 career points.
Bowden has made 301 career field goals and has 47 games of 10+ points, while Turner has made 303 field goals and has 43 double-digit scoring games.
On this date in 1974, Pat Summitt, a senior at UT-Martin, was sent a letter asking her to become a physical education teacher and head women's basketball coach at UT.
Summitt, then known as Pat Head, received it in the mail and accepted the job at age 22.
Mississippi State's Kylin Hill entered Saturday as the SEC's leader in rushing with 119.2 yards per game.
Tennessee's defense held Hill to just 13 rushing yards on 11 carries, his lowest output since Nov. 11, 2017 against Alabama.
Jauan Jennings has moved into sixth place in
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history in receiving yards with 2,042 for his career.
His 18 touchdowns are tied for fifth in program history.
Santiago Vescovi is the third Vol to garner first-team All-SEC honors under Rick Barnes, joining Grant Williams (2018, 2019) and Admiral Schofield (2019).
Jarrett Guarantano’s 415 yards passing tonight against Missouri are the fourth-most passing yards in a single game in
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history.
Guarantano joins Peyton Manning and Tyler Bray as the only quarterbacks in Tennessee history with 400-yard passing games.
For the first time since 2006-07, Tennessee has won five SEC team championships in the same academic year.
Sunday’s SEC Baseball Tournament title marks Tennessee’s 200th all-time SEC team championship.
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Brian Maurer's 73-yard touchdown pass to Marquez Callaway is
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's longest touchdown pass since Oct. 31, 2015, when Josh Dobbs completed a 75-yard touchdown pass to Josh Malone at Kentucky.
With tonight’s
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victory, Rick Barnes moved past legendary coach John Wooden on the Division I all-time wins list. Barnes now has 665 career victories.
For the first time since the NBA Draft was reformed to two rounds in 1989, three
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players have been selected in the same draft.
Overall, 2019 marks the first time that UT has ever had three players go in the first two rounds.
Most single-season receiving touchdowns in
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program history:
1. Marcus Nash – 13 (1997)
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Cedrick Wilson – 12 (2000)
With five threes so far today against Longwood, Santiago Vescovi now has 100 made 3-pointers this season.
Vescovi is only the second Vol in
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history to make 100 or more threes in a single season, joining Chris Lofton.
Jordan Bone (18 points, 10 assists) recorded his third points and assists double-double of the season during Tennessee's win over Texas A&M, joining Tyrone Beaman (1982-83) and Rodney Woods (1974-75) as the only Vols to ever accomplish that feat.
Jauan Jennings and Marquez Callaway have each recorded 100+ receiving yards in the same game three times this season, joining Joey Kent and Marcus Nash (1996) as the only
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duos to accomplish that feat.
On this date in 1921, Tennessee played its first game inside Neyland Stadium.
Since then, Neyland Stadium’s capacity has grown from the original 3,200 to the current mark of 102,455. The Vols have posted a 465-129-17 record at their home venue in nearly 100 seasons.
Jordan Bowden is the first
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player in the last 35 years to come off the bench and score 20 or more points in Tennessee’s first two SEC games.
With nine blocks during today’s SEC Tournament quarterfinal win over Florida, Yves Pons set the
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single-game blocked shots record and tied the SEC Tournament record.
Eric Gray's 94-yard touchdown run is the second-longest run in
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history, surpassed only by Kelsey Finch's 99-yard run at Florida on Oct. 22, 1977.
The past three ranked
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teams to play in Athens have come away with wins.
2016 - No. 11 Tennessee 34, No. 25 Georgia 31
2006 - No. 13 Tennessee 51, No. 10 Georgia 33
2004 - No. 17 Tennessee 19, No. 3 Georgia 14
On this date in 2004, the largest crowd in Neyland Stadium history (109,061) witnessed
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defeat Florida, 30-28.
Vols’ placekicker James Wilhoit made a 50-yard field goal with 13 seconds remaining to propel Tennessee to the win.
Notes from today's
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victory over No. 1 Gonzaga:
• Fifth-ever win over a No. 1 ranked team, and first since Jan. 10, 2010.
• Held the nation’s second-ranked scoring offense 23 points below its season scoring average.
• Career-high 30 points for Admiral Schofield.
For the first time in modern program history,
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has scored 28 points in the first quarter in back-to-back games.
Tennessee leads the FBS in first-quarter scoring (16.83) and first-quarter scoring differential (+14.67).
Brent Cimaglia’s 53-yard field goal is his career-long make and tied for the eighth-longest field goal in
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history.
It is the longest field goal by a Vol since Jeff Hall in 1995 vs. Oklahoma State.
Tonight’s win over Texas A&M gives
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its longest win streak in program history at 16 games.
It also marks the earliest point in the season that Tennessee has reached 20 wins.
Brian Maurer became the 11th true freshman quarterback in
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history to start a game this past Saturday.
His 259 yards passing are the second-most in program history by a true freshman QB in their first start.
Brothers Josh and Jordan Bone have been at the forefront of each of
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’ last two wins over top-ranked teams.
Josh was part of the Vols’ squad that took down No. 1 Kansas on Jan. 10, 2010, while Jordan started at point guard for UT on Sunday against Gonzaga.
Today's
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win over Florida set some notable records:
• Marks the longest win streak of Rick Barnes’ career (18 games)
• Set UT's longest regular season conference win streak in program history (14 games)
• Ties UT's best start ever in SEC play (1976-77)
Today’s win over Colgate gives
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30 wins this season, marking the second time in program history that Tennessee has reached the 30 win mark in a season (2007-08).
Four of the six fastest 100-meter dash times in the world this year have come from
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alumni.
1. Christian Coleman (9.81, June 30)
2. Christian Coleman (9.85, June 13)
T3. Christian Coleman (9.86, May 18)
6. Justin Gatlin (9.87, June 30)
Santiago Vescovi is the first
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freshman to score in double figures during each of his first three games since Tobias Harris did so during the 2010-11 season.
John Fulkerson’s 27 points during Tuesday’s
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win over Kentucky marked the second-highest scoring total by a Tennessee player during a win at Rupp Arena.
1. Chris Lofton (31) — Feb. 7, 2006
2. John Fulkerson (27) — March 3, 2020
3. Ernie Grunfeld (22) — Jan. 12, 1977
Grant Williams’ 43-point performance tonight against Vanderbilt is the first game of 40 or more points by a
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player since Allan Houston also had 43 against LSU on Feb. 10, 1990.
Jalin Hyatt has recorded multiple receiving touchdowns in four straight games.
He's the first player in
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program history to do so over the course of a single season.
For the first time since 1965,
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has defeated an SEC opponent by 30+ points in back-to-back games.
Mississippi State — W, 87-53
at South Carolina — W, 85-42
Kyle Alexander’s 17 rebounds tonight against Missouri are the most in a single game by a
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player since Jarnell Stokes had 18 against Mercer on March 23, 2014.
Tuesday night’s win over Murray State stands as
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’ nation-leading 28th consecutive home win, tying the third-longest home win streak in program history.
For the second game this season,
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has had two players go for more than 100 yards receiving (Marquez Callaway and Jauan Jennings).
That marks the first time since the 2012 season (vs. Troy and Missouri) that a Tennessee team has accomplished that feat.
With 2:45 to play in today’s SEC Tournament semifinal game, ESPN win probability gave
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a 10.1% chance to win.
From there on, Tennessee finished on an 18-6 run and scored on every possession for the remainder of the game.
Tennessee athletes have won more Summer Olympics gold medals (39) than more than 115 other participating Olympic countries, including Greece (33), Brazil (30), Jamaica (22), Argentina (21) and Mexico (13).
With Keon Johnson and Jaden Springer’s first round selections,
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has two first round NBA Draft picks in the same year for just the second time in program history.
Zakai Zeigler is only the fourth Vol ever to be selected to the SEC All-Defensive Team and the first to do it as a freshman:
JaJuan Smith (2008)
Josh Richardson (2014, 2015)
Yves Pons (2020, 2021)
Zakai Zeigler (2022)
Grant Williams’ efficiency rating of 50 during last night’s
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win over Vanderbilt is the highest efficiency rating by a power program player in a single game this season.
Williams also drew a total of 14 fouls over the course of the contest.