KNOXVILLE – Armani Moore became Tennessee’s first Southeastern Conference men’s basketball player of the week in more than a year when the conference office gave him the honor Monday.
Now the Volunteers need the versatile senior to continue that level of play as they push toward the SEC tournament.
Moore posted back-to-back double-doubles as Tennessee split with Kentucky and LSU last week, and with top scorer Kevin Punter Jr. likely to miss a second straight game, the Vols will need Moore to lead the way at South Carolina tonight.
“He’s done so much for us,” first-year Vols coach Rick Barnes said Monday. “Whatever the challenge is, he just keeps accepting that challenge, but he would be the first to deflect that to his teammates.
“We all appreciate what he’s done for us all year long.”