The Tennessee Volunteers have a chance to win a second Southeastern Conference basketball tournament in three years this weekend, as they will arrive in Nashville as the event’s top seed.
They also have a chance to nail down the first NCAA tournament No. 1 seed in program history.
Newly crowned SEC player of the year Dalton Knecht will get to perform in front of multiple fan bases, but there is definitely another storyline worth following with the fifth-ranked Vols: Will things finally take a turn for the better for Santiago Vescovi?
The fifth-year senior guard from Uruguay continues to battle through a frustrating season that continued last Saturday, when he was held scoreless on senior day and went 0-of-5 from the floor in an 85-81 home loss to Kentucky.
“He’s done so much for us, and I want to see him go out on a great note and play up to his ability and what he’s capable of,” Tennessee coach Rick Barnes said Wednesday in a news conference. “So many people are pulling for him to do that, but it’s going to be up to him. He knows what he’s capable of, and he’s got to believe in it and go after it.”