Editor’s note: This is the second story in a series about the newcomers on Tennessee’s men’s basketball team. Read the first part here.
KNOXVILLE – James Daniel III is from Hampton, Va., and a metropolitan area of nearly two million people, so he finds Knoxville quaint.
“It’s just a nice college town,” he said of his new home in Tennessee.
But the 6-foot shooting guard knows that, although the city feels small, he is stepping onto his career’s most visible platform yet.
If he needed a reminder, Daniel was surrounded by more than a dozen reporters this past week as he discussed his transition to Tennessee from Howard University in Washington, D.C.