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Tennessee Announces Unnamed Basketball Player Tests Positive for COVID-19

An unnamed member of the Tennessee men's basketball team has tested positive for COVID-19, per a statement via school sports information director Tom Satkowiak (h/t Mike Wilson of the Knoxville News Sentinel):

"After testing several domestic members of our men’s and women’s basketball teams, one male student-athlete tested positive for COVID-19. 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."

Per Wilson, the positive test is the first among Tennessee student-athletes since football and men's and women's basketball players returned to campus.