KNOXVILLE – Listed below are transcripts from Monday afternoon interviews with University of Tennessee men’s basketball coach Bruce Pearl and Southeastern Conference player of the week Wayne Chism.
Pearl and Chism discuss nineteenth-ranked UT’s game at Florida tomorrow and the Volunteers’ overall preparations for postseason play.
Tomorrow night is potentially very big for UT. The Vols (20-6, 8-4 SEC) and Gators (19-8, 8-4) are tied for third place in the SEC Eastern Division with just four games left in the regular season. If UT completes a season sweep of Florida, it will own the tiebreaker for SEC tournament seeding.
The Vols will board a bus for the airport here in a few moments – around 5:15 p.m. – and they’ll arrive in Gainesville in a few hours.
BRUCE PEARL