Tennessee’s Jordan McRae shoots over Alabama’s Trevor Lacey during an NCAA college basketball game in Knoxville.KNOXVILLE – Jordan McRae wears the label simply by default.
That doesn’t mean Tennessee’s top scorer is donning it proudly.
When coach Cuonzo Martin shuffled the Volunteers’ starting lineup before Tennessee’s Southeastern Conference basketball opener, McRae, now in the first five, looked around and noticed he was the de facto point guard.
“He never really came to me,” McRae said. “One day he just said that was going to be the lineup, and I figured I was going to play the point with what the lineup was. He shows a lot of trust in me at that spot.”
Yet the name of that spot — pseudo point guard, point-wing, the 1 and so on — is up for debate.