NEWS & NOTES
• Tennessee Vice Chancellor/ Director of Athletics Dr. Danny White is the younger brother of Georgia head coach Mike White. Both played college basketball, Danny at Towson and Notre Dame, Mike at Ole Miss. The Volunteers fell to Florida, where Mike then worked, two days before Danny was hired on 1/21/21, but are 4-1 against him since then.
• Rick Barnes and Mike White both joined the SEC in 2015- 16. Barnes is 9-2 against White, posting an 8-2 ledger during the former's time at Florida (2015-22) and winning the lone matchup between their current schools.
• Georgia freshman guard Blue Cain is a native of Knoxville, Tenn., and went to Knoxville Catholic his first three years of high school.
• With 330 assists at Tennessee, Zakai Zeigler is two behind UT radio analyst Bert Bertelkamp (332) for No. 15 in program history.
• In Tennessee's last game, Rick Barnes became the 13th person (min. 10 years in DI) to serve as a head coach for 1,200 games, including the third active coach.
• In the SEC road opener at Mississippi State (1/10/24), Dalton Knecht (28) and Zakai Zeigler (26) became the first Tennessee duo to post 25-plus points in a game in over eight years. The last instance came on 11/24/15, when Armani Moore (29) and Kevin Punter Jr. (26) did so against Army West Point.
• Knecht, who scored 26 points on 9-of-13 shooting in the second half alone against the Bulldogs, is the only Power Six player in the nation to score 24-plus points on the road thrice this season, doing so in each opportunity. He is averaging 29.7 ppg on the road, shooting 31-of-50 (62.0 percent) overall and 9-of-21 (42.9 percent) from deep.
• Zakai Zeigler is shooting 18-of-42 (42.9 percent) from 3-point range over the last five games and has four-plus makes in four of them. Before that stretch, he was at 104- of-326 (31.9 percent) from deep in his career, including 9-of-37 (24.3 percent) this season, with four makes in just two of his 75 appearances.
