Brian WilliamsKNOXVILLE – The injury wasn’t anything new to Brian Williams.
The Tennessee center certainly wishes his back had cooperated through the end of his senior season, but the condition kept him out of the Volunteers’ last two games.
“It’s been hurting me since freshman year,” the 6-foot-10 Williams said after participating in the Volunteers’ light practice Monday afternoon. “It comes back off and on, and it flared up again. It’s just one of those things.
“It’s tough, that being my last game at Thompson-Boling with a Tennessee jersey on, and obviously watching the game I [saw] things that I could have helped the team on, especially defensive and offensive rebounds.”
Williams, the Vols’ leading rebounder, could have helped them secure three defensive rebounds late in Sunday’s loss to Kentucky, which relegated UT to a fifth-place finish in the East Division and a first-round Southeastern Conference game Thursday against Arkansas in Atlanta.