TENNESSEE VS. LIPSCOMB -- GAME PREVIEW

Dec. 28, 2005

QUICK FACTS

Lipscomb Bisons
vs. Tennessee Volunteers

Game 9

Date: Dec. 29, 2005

Tipoff: 7 p.m. (EST)

Television: CSS

Site: Thompson-Boling Arena (24,535)

The 2005-06 Records

Lipscomb: 5-4, 0-0 Atlantic Sun

Tennessee: 7-1, 0-0 SEC

The Series

Overall: UT leads 1-0

at Knoxville: UT leads 1-0

at Nashville: Never Met

at Neutral Sites: Never Met

Next Game

Jan. 4
vs. South Alabama
7 p.m. ET
CSS

RADIO:
Vol Network: Bob Kesling and Bert Bertlekamp
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TELEVISION:
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RANKINGS:
Associated Press Poll
Tennessee: not ranked / Lipscomb: not ranked
ESPN/USA Today-Coaches Poll
Tennessee: not ranked / Lipscomb: not ranked

THE COACHES:
Tennessee Volunteers
Bruce Pearl (Boston College 1982)
Overall Record: 324-85 (.792 / 14th year)
At Tennessee: 7-1 (.875 / 1st year)
2005-06 Roster
2005-06 Schedule
2005-06 Statistics

Lipscomb Bisons
Scott Sanderson (South Carolina 1984)
Overall Record: 181-114 (.614 / 10th year)
At Lipscomb: 97-89 (.522 / 7th year)
2005-06 Roster
2005-06 Schedule
2005-06 Statistics

FEATURES

Probable Starters
TENNESSEE VOLUNTEERS (7-1)
Pos	No.	Name	Ht	Wt	Yr	Hometown	PPG	RPG	APG
F	3	Stanley Asumnu	6-5	215	Sr.	Houston, Texas	10.3	3.5	2.3
F	23	Dane Bradshaw	6-4	200	Jr.	Memphis, Tenn.	5.6	6.1	4.0
C	1	Major Wingate	6-10	250	Jr.	Florence, S.C.	11.4	3.4	0.9
G	5	Chris Lofton	6-2	197	So.	Maysville, Ky.	18.4	3.3	2.0
G	32	C.J. Watson	6-2	176	Sr.	Las Vegas, Nev.	16.3	2.8	4.6

LIPSCOMB BISONS (5-4)
Pos	No.	Name	Ht	Wt	Yr	Hometown	PPG	RPG	APG
F	2	Cameron Robinson	6-7	210	Sr.	Portsmouth, Dominica	8.0	6.9	1.0
F	14	Eddie Ard	6-5	215	So.	LaPlace, La.	13.7	5.9	1.1
C	00	Shaun Durant	6-8	250	Sr.	London, England	10.7	10.0	0.8
G	3	Trey Williams	6-2	190	Jr.	Memphis, Tenn.	2.8	3.9	3.7
G	5	Brian Fisk	6-2	205	Jr.	Newbern, Tenn.	11.9	3.3	2.1

Tennessee Continues Three-Game Home Stand Against Lipscomb

Stanley Asumnu

Tennessee will play its second game in a three day period when the Lipscomb Bisons visit Thompson-Boling Arena at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 29. CSS will televise the game regionally.
The Lipscomb game is the second game of a three-game home stand for the Vols before opening Southeastern Conference action. UT defeated Alabama A&M 93-68 in Knoxville on Dec. 27 and will conclude the home stand on Jan. 4 when South Alabama visits Thompson-Boling Arena. The Vols begin SEC play on Jan. 8 at South Carolina.
Tennessee bounced back from its first loss of the season with a 93-68 victory over Alabama A&M on Tuesday. Chris Lofton led the Vols with 19 points on 5-of-9 3-point shooting. C.J. Watson and JaJuan Smith each added 16 points while Stanley Asumnu had 15 points. Andre Patterson, who made his first start of the season, added nine points and a game-high 14 rebounds. The Bulldogs entered the game leading the nation in steals (13.5 spg) and blocked shots (8.5 bpg) but managed just two steals and two blocks. Tennessee had a season-high 28 assists and a season-low nine turnovers.
Lofton, who is averaging 20.3 points in his last three contests, is leading the Vols with 18.4 points per game on the season. A preseason All-SEC selection, Watson is adding 16.3 points and is making 54.5 percent of his 3-pointers.
Watson needs just three assists to reach the 500 career assist mark. He would be just the fourth Vols player and 18th in Southeastern Conference history to reach to 500 career assist milestone.

Tennessee Trends

Tennessee had a season-high 28 assists and a season-low nine turnovers against Alabama A&M (12/27/05).
Andre Patterson made his first start of the season against Alabama A&M (12/27/05). It marked the first time this season the Vols made a change to the starting lineup.
UT has scored 80 or more points six times this season.
The Vols just completed a stretch of playing only one home game in a month. Between Nov. 26 and Dec. 26, Tennessee's only home game was Dec. 5 against Appalachian State.
UT has recorded nearly twice as many steals as its opponents. The Vols have 90 steals compared to just 48 by their opponents.
Tennessee's opponents are averaging 21.8 turnovers per game this year. East Tennessee State's (11/18/05) 33 turnovers are the most by a UT opponent since American-Puerto Rico (12/21/99) turned the ball over 40 times.
UT has shot better than its opponent in six of its eight games this season. The only opponents to have a better field goal percentage than the Vols are Murray State (11/30/05) and Oklahoma State (12/22/05).
Tennessee has shot 50 percent or better from the field in five of eigh games.
Chris Lofton and C.J. Watson have reached double-figure scoring in each of Tennessee's eight games this season.
Tennessee's rebounding leader in five of its eight games this season has been 6-foot-4 or shorter. Dane Bradshaw (6-4) has led the team in rebounding three times while C.J. Watson (6-2) and Chris Lofton (6-2) have each led the Vols one time.
The Vols play just three home games in the month of December. Tennessee hosts Appalachian State (Dec. 6), Alabama A&M (Dec. 27) and Lipscomb (Dec. 29) during the final month of the calendar year.
The Vols are playing with just 10 scholarship players this season. UT's roster sports 11 scholarship players but Tony Passley will sit out the season under NCAA transfer guidelines.
Not only is UT's roster short on scholarship players but it is also short on size. Tennessee's roster lists just four scholarship players -- Andre Patterson (6-7), Ryan Childress (6-9), Damion Harris (6-10) and Major Wingate (6-10) -- taller than 6-foot-5.
Six walk-ons are listed on the Vols' roster. Eddie DeBro is the only returning walk-on while Ben Bosse, Jonah Cox, Justin Jackson, Jordan Smith and Tanner Wild are each in their rookie season with the squad.
The Vols play 18 of their 27 regular-season games within the state of Tennessee. UT will play games in Knoxville (14), Nashville (2) and Memphis (1). The SEC Tournament will also be in Nashville.
The Vols return their 2004-05 statistical leader in 11 of 12 categories. Andre Patterson was UT's leading rebounder with 6.2 boards per game and C.J. Watson led the Vols with 155 assists last season. The only category the Vols don't return their leader from last year is scoring. Chris Lofton is Tennessee's top returning scorer after averaging 13.2 points as a freshman.
The basketball court at Thompson-Boling Arena has been named "The Summitt" in honor of Pat Summitt, who recorded her 882nd career win in 2005.
Tennessee has an all-time record of 1,352-885-2 in its 97th season of basketball.
UT's 598 regular season Southeastern Conference victories rank third all-time in the SEC. Only Kentucky and Alabama have won more league games.
Tennessee is 205-84 in its 19th season in Thompson-Boling Arena. The Volunteers have posted winning home records in 16 of their 18 previous seasons in the facility.

Team Statistical Comparisons
Tennessee	Stat Category	Lipscomb
86.9	Points	65.2
73.2	Opponent Points	65.0
+13.6	Scoring Margin	+0.2
.490	Field Goal %	.412
.467	Opponent Field Goal %	.430
.427	Three-Point %	.297
.408	Opponent Three-Point %	.366
.711	Free Throw %	.693
33.8	Rebounds	40.0
36.1	Opponent Rebounds	31.7
-2.4	Rebounding Margin	+8.3
18.9	Assists	12.1
13.5	Turnovers	17.1
11.3	Steals	6.6
3.9	Blocks	2.7
7-1	Record	5-4
Individual Statistical Leaders
Tennessee	Stat Category	Lipscomb
Lofton, 18.4	Points	Ard, 13.7
Patterson, 6.3	Rebounds	Durant, 10.0
Watson, 4.6	Assists	Williams, 3.7
Patterson, .548	Field Goal %	Durant, .604
Watson, .545	Three-Point %	Ard, .500
Bradshaw, .929	Free Throw %	Fisk, .822

Looking At Lipscomb
Lipscomb University improved to 5-4 on the season with a 73-71 win at Nicholls State on Dec. 19 ... The win was the third in four games for the Bisons ... Lipscomb has played two Southeastern Conference teams already this season ... They have visited Kentucky (49-67 loss on Nov. 14) and Auburn (54-69 loss on Nov. 20) ... The Vols and Bisons have one common opponent this season ... Both teams own victories over East Tennessee State ... Tennessee downed the Bucs 106-83 on Nov. 18 while Lipscomb took a 63-54 victory in Johnson City, Tenn. ... Lipscomb is outrebounding its opponents by 8.3 boards per game ... Eddie Ard, a 6-foot-5 guard/forward, is leading the Bisons with 13.7 points per game and has made half (9-of-18) of his 3-point attempts ... Shaun Durant, a 6-8, 250-pound center is averaging a double-double with 10.7 points and 10.0 rebounds ... Durant has registered double-figure rebounds six times in nine games this season ... Brian Fisk, a 6-2 junior guard, is second on the team with 11.9 points per game ... Lipscomb has played just two games on its home court this season ... Five of its games have been on an opponent's court while two have been at neutral sites ... The Lipscomb roster features a pair of transfers from SEC schools ... LaKory Daniels, a 6-foot sophomore guard, began his career at Alabama and Ryan Daniel, a 6-10 sophomore forward, played 18 games at Auburn last year before transferring ... Scott Sanderson, who is the son of legendary Alabama coach Wimp Sanderson, is 97-89 in his seventh season at Lipscomb and 181-114 in his 10th year as a head coach.

The Lipscomb Series
Tennessee leads the all-time series 1-0 ... This is the first meeting since a 95-38 Tennessee win on Dec. 1, 1954 ... The Vols are 15-5 all-time against teams from the Atlantic Sun Conference, including a 106-83 victory over East Tennessee State to open the season Nov. 18.

Last Game: Vols Rout Alabama A&M
Tennessee rebounded from its first loss of the season to take a 93-68 victory over Alabama A&M Tuesday, Dec. 27, at Thompson-Boling Arena ... The Bulldogs kept the game close, trailing just 32-26 with 3:46 left in the first half ... The Vols, however, finished the half on a 13-6 run to take a 45-32 lead into the locker room ... Tennessee increased its lead to 29 points with 12 minutes left in the game and cruised to its seventh win of the season ... The Vols' lead grew to as many as 30 points while they never let Alabama A&M get closer than 20 the rest of the way ... Chris Lofton led the Vols with 19 points on 5-of-9 3-point shooting ... JaJuan Smith added a career-high 16 points to go with five assists ... C.J. Watson also added 16 points and four assists ... Stanley Asumnu contributed 15 points ... Andre Patterson, who made his first start of the season, had nine points and 14 rebounds ... Joe Martin led Alabama A&M with 27 points on 11-of-16 shooting from the field ... Obie Trotter and Michael Ford each added a dozen points for the Bulldogs ... Alabama A&M entered the game leading the nation in steals with 13.2 per game but only had two pilfers against the Vols ... The Bulldogs also led the nation in blocks with 8.5 per game but had just two against UT ... Tennessee had a season-high 28 assists and a season-low nine turnovers ... The Vols shot 55.4 percent from the field.

Watson Approaching Milestones
Senior guard C.J. Watson needs four points and three assists to reach the 1,100 career point and 500 career assists milestones ... Watson enters the Lipscomb game ranking in a tie with Terry Crosby (1976-79) for 34th all-time at UT with 1,096 career points and fourth all-time with 497 career assists ... He would be just the second Tennessee player to have 1,000 points and 500 assists ... Tony Harris (1998-01) is the only other Vol to accomplish the feat with 1,588 points and 509 assists ... Watson would be just the ninth player in Southeastern Conference history to be a member of the 1,000/500 club.

Improved Vols

Player	2005 Pts	2006 Pts
Stanley Asumnu	63	82
JaJuan Smith	48	62
Jordan Howell	21	21
Dane Bradshaw	89	45

Several Vols have seen their offensive production increase exponentially this season ... Three key players have tied or passed their scoring totals from all of last season already ... Stanley Asumnu scored 63 points in 26 games last year as a junior ... This year it took him just seven games to pass his scoring total from a season ago ... Following is a list of players who have seen increased scoring totals this year:

Pearl's Start Second Best All-Time

Coach (first season)	Start
1. Jerry Green (1997-98)	10-0
2. Bruce Pearl (2005-06)	6-0
3t. Ray Mears (1962-63)	5-0
3t. Emmett Lowery (1947-48)	5-0
3t. John Mauer (1938-39)	5-0

Bruce Pearl came to Tennessee as one of the winningest coaches in the nation, having won 79.1 percent (317-84) of his career games entering the season ... Pearl did not disappoint the UT faithful, winning his first six games as the leader of the Vols program ... Pearl's 6-0 record was the second-best start to a career amongst UT's all-time coaches:

Great Starts

Year	Start
1. 1999-2000	11-0
2. 1997-98	10-0
3. 2000-01	9-0
4t. 1982-83	8-0
4t. 1956-57	8-0
6. 1964-65	7-0
7t. 2005-06	6-0
7t. 1970-71	6-0

Tennessee's 6-0 start to the 2005-06 season was the 14th time in school history that the Vols have begun a season by winning its first six games ... It was the eighth time in the modern era (since World War II) that UT has started 6-0 ... Following is how this year's start ranks with past years in the modern era:

Vitale Takes Notice Of Vols
ESPN commentator Dick Vitale took time in his weekly "Roundball Chatter" column on Dec. 16 to mention a pair of Vols by saying, "The backcourt of C.J. Watson and Chris Lofton is one of the most underrated in America..." ... Watson and Lofton are combining to average 34.6 points, 6.6 assists and 5.0 steals per game this season.

Ranking Note
For the first time since Feb. 19, 2001, the Tennessee Volunteers appeared in the Associated Press Top 25 Poll when they debuted at No. 23 in the Dec. 23 rankings.

Vols In The NCAA Stats
Tennessee has is prominently listed among the national leaders according to the Dec. 19 NCAA statistics. Following is where the Vols rank nationally:

Scoring offense: 88.2 ppg / 4th
3-point percentage: 44.3 percent / 5th
3-pointers per game: 9.7 3pg / 7th
Steals per game: 11.3 spg / 10th
Assists per game: 18.5 apg / 18th
Scoring margin: +16.7 ppg / 20th
3-pointers per game: Chris Lofton - 4.0 3pg / 6th
3-point percentage: Chris Lofton - 47.1 % / 29th

Assists And Turnovers In UT's Favor
Tennessee is leading the Southeastern Conference in turnover margin (+8.25) and assist/turnover ratio (1.40) ... The Vols have had more assists than turnovers in seven of their eight games this year ... On the season, UT has 151 assists to 108 turnovers (1.40 assists-to-turnovers) ... Conversely, the Vols' opponents have had more turnovers than assists in against the Vols six of eight games (0.77 assists-to-turnovers) ... Arkansas ranks second in the league with a turnover margin of +3.55, almost five turnovers fewer than the Vols.

Rally Vols
Tennessee has rallied from deficits of at least nine points in two games this season ... Murray State (11/30/05) built a nine-point lead early in the second half before the Vols rallied for a 64-53 victory in Nashville ... At one point during the Tennessee rally, Chris Lofton outscored the Racers 12-1 ... Appalachian State (12/5/05) took a 12-point lead with just over six minutes left in the first half but UT went on a 19-2 run to take a 48-46 lead at halftime ... Against Oklahoma State (12/22/05) the Vols rallied from a 16-point halftime deficit to cut the lead to one point but could never overtake the Cowboys.

Watson & Lofton Earn Back-To-Back SEC Player Of The Week Honors
Chris Lofton was named the co-SEC Player of the Week on Dec. 19 after leading the Vols to a 95-78 upset at sixth-ranked Texas ... Lofton, who shared the award with Kentucky's Rajon Rondo, scored a game-high 21 points on 5-of-9 3-point shooting against the Longhorns ... It marked the second consecutive week a UT player earned the honor ... C.J. Watson took home player of the week honors Dec. 12 after scoring a season-high 23 points against Appalachian State Dec. 5.

Watson Reaches 1,000 Points In Unique Way
C.J. Watson became the 38th player in Tennessee history to reach the 1,000 career point milestone in a 17-point outing against Louisiana-Lafayette (11/22/05) ... Watson, who now has 1,096 career points, reached the milestone when he was fouled on a made 3-pointer and then scored his 1,000th point on the free throw.

Las Vegas Dealer: Watson Deals Assists
One could only dream of sitting down at a blackjack table and seeing a dealer as friendly as Tennessee's senior point guard C.J. Watson ... The senior from Las Vegas has dealt nothing but aces and face cards while running the Vols' attack ... Twice he has led the Southeastern Conference in assists and this year he has taken on a larger scoring role while also dishing out the assists ... This year the 6-foot-2 Watson is averaging 16.3 points and 4.6 assists per game.
In 2004-05 (5.00 apg) and 2002-03 (5.44 apg) he led the SEC in assists against league opponents.
Watson owns three of the top 13 single-season assist marks in Tennessee history.
Watson is the Southeastern Conference's active career leader in assists with 497.
His 497 career assists are fourth all-time at UT.
He ranks 19th in SEC history in assists with 497. Only 17 previous players in SEC history have reached the 500 career assist mark.
Watson's 4.63 assists per game are currently seventh in the SEC.

Lofton Is A Triples Threat
Chris Lofton, a 6-foot-2 sophomore, took the SEC by storm as a freshman by leading the league in 3-point percentage (.465) and 3-pointers made per game (3.00 3pg) ... He ranked fourth nationally in 3-point accuracy on his way to earning a spot on the SEC All-Freshman team ... His 93 3-pointers were the most ever by an SEC freshman.
With 32 3-pointers already this season, Lofton ranks ninth on Tennessee's career lists with 125.
He is currently leading the Southeastern Conference with 4.00 3-pointers per game.
Against Murray State (11/30/05) he scored 12 consecutive points to help the Vols rally to a 64-53 win.
His last three games he is averaging 20.3 points on 52.4 percent (22-of-42) shooting from the field and 46.4 percent (13-of-28) from 3-point range.

Patterson Leading Vols In Field Goal Percentage
When Andre Patterson led the Vols with his 56.8 percent field goal shooting in 2004-05, it marked the second school he had led in field goal percentage ... As a sophomore at UCLA in 2002-03 he led the Bruins and the Pac-10 Conference with a 60.8 field goal percentage ... As a junior at UT last season, Patterson averaged 7.4 points per game while leading the Vols with 6.2 rebounds per game.
He is currently shooting 55.6 percent (30-of-54) from the field and is averaging 11.7 points per game off the bench.
Patterson recorded a career-high 14 rebounds against Murray State (11/30/05) while recording his third career-double-double.

Asumnu Builds On Strong Finish To 2005
Senior guard/forward Stanley Asumnu started his senior season like he ended his junior year ... The Houston native scored a career-high 18 points on 8-of-11 shooting in the Vols' season-opening win over East Tennessee State (11/18/05) ... In eight games he is averaging 10.3 points per game ... The ultra-athletic Asumnu scored 24 points in 27 minutes of playing time over Tennessee's final four games of the 2005 season ... Against Georgia (3/5/05), the 6-foot-5 Asumnu scored a then career-high 14 points on 6-of-6 shooting from the field in just 10 minutes of action.
It took Asumnu just seven games this season to score 67 points, surpassing the 63 points he scored in 26 contests as a junior.

Bradshaw Playing Power/Point
With only four scholarship players taller than 6-foot-5 on the roster, junior guard Dane Bradshaw has been called upon to play big, quite literally ... The 6-4 backup point guard has earned starting assignments at power forward for each of the Vols' games this year ... Playing in the paint isn't anything new for the Memphis native ... In 2005 he drew difficult defensive assignments by guarding 6-8, 252-pound Brandon Bass against LSU (2/5/05) and 6-10 Jermareo Davidson of Alabama (2/9/05).
He recorded a career game against East Tennessee State (11/18/05) with 13 points and 12 rebounds to go with six assists.
Bradshaw is leading the team in free throw percentage (.929), is second in rebounding (6.9 rpg), assists (4.0 apg) and is third in steals (2.1 spg) and blocks (0.6 bpg).
His 2.13 steals per game are sixth in the SEC.
Three times this season he has led the Vols in rebounding, including a career-high 12 boards against ETSU (11/18/05).

Wingate Plays Through Pain
Major Wingate wasn't going to let anything stop him from playing against Louisiana-Lafayette on Nov. 22 ... After suffering a foot injury in practice two days earlier that left him on crutches, Wingate spent the next two nights in the training room rehabbing the injury so he could play ... When it came time to play, Wingate was there standing in the center circle ready for the jump ball ... The junior from Florence, S.C., scored 12 points and blocked three shots in 28 minutes of action against the Ragin' Cajuns ... Defensively, he held Louisiana's star center Michael Southall to just four points and four rebounds.
On the year he is averaging 11.4 points per game.
Wingate has scored in double-figures in six of UT's eight games ... In two previous season at Tennessee he had reached double-figure scoring just three times.
Against sixth-ranked Texas (12/19/05) Wingate played a key role in limiting LaMarcus Aldridge to just four field goals. Aldridge, who finished with 15 points total, scored just one point when Wingate was guarding him.

JaJuan Smith Setting Career Marks
JaJuan Smith, a 6-foot-2 guard from Decatur, Tenn., has seen his role grow from 8.0 minutes per game as a freshman last year to 23.8 minutes per game this season ... Already this year he has tied or established new career marks for scoring (16), rebounds (6), assists (6), steals (3), blocks (1) and minutes played (25) ... Smith, who has been the first player off the bench in each of Tennessee's games this season, is averaging 7.8 points per game ... His 21 assists are third on the team.
Smith had perhaps his best game of his career at sixth-ranked Texas when he came off the bench to score a career-high 12 points on 4-of-6 shooting from 3-point range.
He scored a career-high 16 points on 6-of-9 shooting from the field to go with five assists and two steals against Alabama A&M (12/27/05).

Vols' Recruiting Class Ranked Among Top 10 In The Nation
Bruce Pearl's first recruiting class at the University of Tennessee has drawn rave reviews and has been rated as one of the best classes in the Southeastern Conference and among the top 10 classes in the nation. The Vols signed four players during the early signing period in November: Wayne Chism, Duke Crews, Marques Johnson and Josh Tabb.
- Chism, a 6-foot-9 forward from Bolivar, Tenn., is a four-star prospect who is rated the No. 42 overall player in the country. As a junior he led Bolivar Central High School to the Class AA state title while averaging 13.6 points, 10 rebounds, seven blocks and 2.2 assists per game. At the Reebok ABCD Camp last summer he was rated the No. 2 center.
- One of the highest-rated players to sign with the Vols in recent years, Crews is a 6-7 forward from Hampton, Va. Rated the No. 14 player in the nation, he is considered a five-star prospect. As a junior he averaged 16 points per game while leading Bethel High School to a 22-4 record last year. Last summer Crews was rated as the No. 2 player at the 2005 Nike Camp in Indianapolis.
- Ranked among the top-50 players by several scouting services, Johnson is a 6-5 guard from Fort Wayne, Ind. A starter since his freshman season, the two-time all-conference selection has led Snider High School to a 50-15 record in his three years. As a junior he averaged 21 points, 6.2 rebounds and four assists.
- A four-star prospect, Tabb is a 6-4 guard from Harmony Christian Prep in Cincinnati. A two-time Class A All-State selection who is originally from Carbondale, Ill., Tabb averaged 21 points, five assists and six rebounds as a senior while leading Carbondale High School to the 2005 state championship game.

Home Court Advantage
Thompson-Boling Arena has provided the Vols with a definite home court advantage since the facility opened in time for the 1987-88 season.

Tennessee is 205-84 (.709) in its 19th season in Thompson-Boling Arena.
Since the 1998 season, the Vols are 106-25 (.809) in Thompson-Boling Arena.
The Vols are 47-16 against SEC teams at home over the last six seasons.
UT has won 65 of its last 72 home games against non-conference opponents.

SEC Throwback Week
Each Southeastern Conference school has designated a previous year's uniform to be worn as a part of "SEC Throwback Week" ... The week of February 18-26 (Saturday through Sunday) has been designated as "SEC Throwback Week" ... Additionally, the uniforms will be worn during the SEC Tournament in Nashville ... Tennessee took a poll of fans on UTsports.com to determine which era to choose their uniforms ... The fans selected the Ernie & Bernie era so UT's uniforms will resemble those worn in the 1970s.

Five Of UT's Non-Conference Opponents Picked To Win Their Leagues
Tennessee's non-conference schedule features the favorites to win the Big 12, Conference USA, Ohio Valley, Sun Belt and SWAC regular season titles in polls of each respective league's coaches ... Eight of the Vols' 11 non-conference games will be against teams picked to finish no worse than second in their respective divisions ... Additionally, the Vols will play against four players who earned preseason player of the year honors from the league's coaches.

East Tennessee State was picked to finish second in the Atlantic Sun Conference and was picked to win the league's postseason tournament. Tim Smith was named the league's preseason player of the year.
Louisiana-Lafayette, a team that has been to the NCAA Tournament the last two years, is picked to win the Sun Belt Conference's West Division. Senior guard Dwayne Mitchell was a preseason first team all-conference pick.
Murray State is tabbed to win the Ohio Valley Conference while Eastern Kentucky is picked second. Murray State junior Trey Pearson was named the league's preseason player of the year while EKU's Matt Witt earned preseason first team all-conference honors.
Appalachian State was picked to tie for second in the Southern Conference North Division while D.J. Thompson earned a spot on the Preseason All-Southern Conference Men's Basketball Team.
Texas is an overwhelming favorite to win the Big 12 Conference title while Oklahoma State is picked fourth. The Longhorns list two preseason first team all-conference selections (Daniel Gibson and P.J. Tucker) while the Cowboys had one (JamesOn Curry).
Alabama A&M is predicted to win SWAC. Senior guard Obie Trotter was selected the league's preseason player of the year while Joseph Martin earned preseason first team all-conference honors.
Memphis, led by preseason conference player of the year Rodney Carney, is the unanimous favorite to win the Conference USA title.

Parking
Limited individual game parking for the 2005-06 men's basketball season will be sold for $5 for the following parking lots on a first come, first served basis:

Lot 23 Corner of Volunteer Blvd and Pat Head Summitt Street
Lot 23B (next to Music Building) - Corner of Pat Head Summitt Street and Volunteer Blvd.
Lot 4 and Lot 5 - Phillip Fulmer Way between Thompson-Boling Arena and Neyland Stadium
Lot 30A - Peyton Manning Pass, off of Volunteer Blvd.
Lot C15 - Chamique Holdsclaw Drive
Lot 9A - Volunteer Blvd. between the Humanities Plaza & the Architecture Bldg.
Lot C18/Staff 7 - accessed from Cumberland Avenue at 11th Street, or from Neyland Drive across from the Tennessee Grill
Lot G10 on Neyland Drve between Thompson-Boling Arena and Neyland Stadium

Special parking arrangements for disabled persons may be requested by calling Parking Services at (865) 974-6031. The UT Athletic Department also provides FREE parking at the Ag Campus with a free shuttle service to and from Thompson-Boling Arena. The KAT shuttle begins 1 1/2 hours prior to game time, and runs for one hour postgame.

UT Parking Lot Map

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Players Mentioned

Ben Bosse

Jonah Cox

Justin Jackson

Jordan Smith

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