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Tennessee Basketball Player Tests Positive for Coronavirus

One Tennessee men’s basketball player has tested positive for COVID-19.

Here are details from 247 Sports:

The Vols announced Friday afternoon that one male student-athlete has tested positive for COVID-19. The athlete was not identified further.

“After testing several domestic members of our men’s and women’s basketball teams, one male student-athlete tested positive for COVID-19,” Tennessee sports information director Tom Satkowiak said. “With a plan already in place, our Sports Medicine staff immediately activated isolation and contact-tracing protocol in collaboration with the Knox County Health Department.

“We are encouraged by this affirmation that our procedures work.