Back to the Tennessee Volunteers Newsfeed

Parrish: Tennessee basketball best positioned for bounce-back year

ST LOUIS, MO - MARCH 10: Rick Barnes the head coach of the Tennessee Volunteers gives instructions to his team against the Arkansas Razorbacks during the semifinals of the 2018 SEC Basketball Tournament at Scottrade Center on March 10, 2018 in St Louis, Missouri. (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images)

Gary Parrish is high on a men’s Tennessee basketball Volunteers resurgence in 2020-2021.

We don’t know for sure if Tennessee basketball would have missed the NCAA Tournament in 2019-2020 because they never got to play an SEC Tournament game. However, simply by being on the bubble with a 17-14 regular season record, they took a major step back from the 2018-2019 team that spent a month at No.