The Official #18 Tennessee vs. Lenoir-Rhyne Exhibition Game Thread, 3:00 PM ET, SEC Network+

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#18 Tennessee Volunteers: 0-0 (0-0 SEC)

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Lenoir-Rhyne Bears: 0-0 (0-0 SAC)

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GAME 0 | EXHIBITION - Oct. 30, 2021 | 3 p.m. ET | Thompson-Boling Arena (21,678)

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Lenoir-Rhyne Game Notes

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THE SERIES

• Lenoir-Rhyne University is located in Rick Barnes' hometown of Hickory, North Carolina. An NCAA Division II member, Lenoir-Rhyne competes alongside local schools Carson-Newman, Lincoln Memorial and Tusculum in the South Atlantic Conference.
• Barnes attended Lenoir-Rhyne (then Lenoir-Rhyne College) as a basketball student-athlete, and he earned his degree in Health and Physical Education in 1977.
• Barnes was named the college's Distinguished Alumnus in 1997, was inducted into the Lenoir-Rhyne College Hall of Fame in 2002 and received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree in 2005.
• Tennessee hosted the Bears for a regular-season game on Nov. 6, 2018, with the sixth-ranked Vols winning by a score of 86-41.
 
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LAST SEASON

• Tennessee finished last season with an 18-9 (10-7 SEC) record and made its third consecutive appearance in the NCAA Tournament.
• Senior forward John Fulkerson sustained a season-ending facial fracture and concussion in the SEC Tournament quarterfinals. In April, he announced that he would run it back one last time as a super senior.
• The phenomenal freshman duo of Jaden Springer and Keon Johnson were UT's top scorers last season, and both were selected in the first round of July's NBA Draft.
• Departed senior Yves Pons finished his four-year career ranked eighth in program history with 137 blocks. He then signed a free-agent contract with the NBA's Memphis Grizzlies after an impressive NBA Summer League performance.
• Due to the pandemic, attendance at Thompson-Boling Arena was capped at 4,191. The venue's full capacity is 21,678.
 
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LAYUP LINES

• Tennessee enters Saturday's game with a 79-18 all-time record in exhibition contests, including a 62-10 mark on the U.S. mainland.
• The 2021-22 campaign is Tennessee's 35th season in Thompson-Boling Arena. UT owns a 409-138 record in 547 games at TBA (exhibition results do not count toward official win totals).
• With sales of 13,525 to date, this marks the third straight full-capacity year that UT has exceeded 13,000 in season-ticket sales.
 
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ABOUT LENOIR-RHYNE

• Located three hours from Knoxville in Hickory, North Carolina, Lenoir-Rhyne University has an enrollment of just over 2,000 students.
• Lenoir-Rhyne competes in Division II's South Atlantic Conference, which includes East Tennessee schools Carson-Newman, Lincoln Memorial and Tusculum.
• The Bears played 16 games during the 2020-21 COVID season, posting a 9-7 (8-6 SAC) record.
• Lenoir-Rhyne is replacing its top five scorers from last season's roster. Overall, the Bears return just 19.6 percent of last season's scoring production.
• Tennessee head coach Rick Barnes is a Lenoir-Rhyne alumnus. Barnes is a Hickory native who played for the Bears from 1974-77. During those same years, Ernie Grunfeld and Bernard King were starring at Tennessee.
• Barnes earned a bachelor's degree in health and physical education from Lenoir-Rhyne in 1977 and was named the college's Distinguished Alumnus in 1997. He was inducted into the Lenoir-Rhyne College Hall of Fame on Oct. 5, 2002, and received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Lenoir-Rhyne on May 7, 2005.
• Tennessee Director of Player Development Bryan Lentz began his coaching career at Lenoir-Rhyne, working for nine years alongside his father, legendary Lenoir-Rhyne head coach John Lentz. During that stretch, the Bears won five South Atlantic Conference regular-season titles, one SAC Tournament title and made to five NCAA Division II Tournament appearances. In his final two seasons at Lenoir-Rhyne, Bryan served as the Bears' associate head coach.
• John Lentz was the head coach at Lenoir-Rhyne for 29 years and was college roommates at L-R with Barnes.
 
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VOLS A PRESEASON TOP-20 TEAM

• Tennessee earned top-20 status in both of the only major 2021-22 preseason polls. The Vols were ranked 18th in the Associated Press poll and tied for 17th in the preseason Coaches Poll.
• Since the start of the 2017-18 season, the Vols have been ranked for 54 weeks, including 26 weeks in the top 10 and four weeks at No. 1.
• Tennessee's position in other preseason polls: Matt Norlander/CBS (No. 16), Sports Illustrated (No. 20), Dick Vitale/ESPN (No. 22).
• During his stellar career as a head coach, Rick Barnes' teams have spent 271 total weeks in the Associated Press Top 25 rankings.
 
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TheMookieMonster said:


Interesting. Kennedy is indeed starting AND Uros!
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I would imagine starting Uros is more so to let BHH be comfortable in his role off the bench, instead of just moving the "next man up" in the lineup. Allows BHH to maintain an expectation and mindset going into the regular season.
 
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walkenvol said:
What’s the admission situation?
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You have to buy a ticket that specifies which seat in the arena you're authorized to use. When you get the ticket, present it to the person at the entrance of TBA. Pending a passing metal detector test, the TBA employee will then accept your ticket and allow you access to TBA, thus completing the admission process.

Just let me know if you have any other questions. GBO!
 
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golfballs said:
Not being terrible is a contribution in a sense. He didn’t really do much but he didn’t look bad.
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I don’t recall him quite as harshly myself. Thought he played within himself, set screens, passed well, and kept his hands up while playing D in the paint. I’m optimistic he can do even better
 
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I had a PL that went to Lenoir-Rhyne. Played football for them.

He and I went to the UT-USC basketball game (in Columbia) way back. Pprobably 2011ish, and I met Phil Fulmer at the game.
 
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Thanks Yankee. So much work for an exhibition game had to like all the post. Your write ups are always excellent. Excited to see this team play.
 
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Can't wait to watch our guys play this season. It's nice that this time around they can be around each other more often, hopefully they are building some chemistry with each other. A lot of good players on our team.
 
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