Dan Fleser: Barnes Optimistic About Revitalized Vols Monday, March 15, 2021 - by Dan Fleser Former Hamilton Heights star Uros Plavsic is geting more playing time Somewhere between trudging off the floor losers at Auburn two weekends ago and repeating the exercise last Saturday at the SEC tournament, Tennessee became a different men’s basketball team.
“The competitiveness that we’re playing with and the determination and the prep in the last really two weeks has really gone to a level that we’re excited about,” UT’s coach said after Saturday’s 73-68 loss to Alabama in the SEC semifinals.
In the same postmortem, Barnes looked ahead to the NCAA tournament and said, “I like where our team is right now.