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The Power Five => SEC => Tennessee => Topic started by: tns56 on March 24, 2022, 03:33:22 PM
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Following SEC Championship, White Extends Rick Barnes' Contract - University of Tennessee Athletics (utsports.com) (https://utsports.com/news/2022/3/24/mens-basketball-following-sec-championship-white-extends-rick-barnes-contract.aspx)
For the second time in Barnes' seven-year tenure, the Vols (27-8) spent the entire season ranked in the AP Top 25—ascending as high as No. 5 in the postseason poll.
Also for the second time during the Barnes era, Tennessee never lost back-to-back games all season.
Tennessee tied a single-season school record this year by defeating four opponents ranked in the top 10 (tying the 1976-77 SEC Championship team). The Vols now are the only program in the SEC to have finished with single-digit losses in four of the last five seasons.
Each of Barnes' last two recruiting classes have been rated consensus top-five nationally, and five Vols have been selected in the NBA Draft since 2019.