Tennessee's Zakai Ziegler repeats as SEC defensive player of the year. The Vols are heading into the SEC tournament as the number four seed and have intentions to be crowned as conference champions by the end of the tournament.

Tennessee basketball's Zakai Zeigler is the first player in SEC history to be named to the all-defensive team in four seasons.

The most notable of those is Zakai Zeigler repeating as SEC Defensive Player of the Year. He also received First Team All-SEC and SEC All-Defensive Team status. Ziegler is the first player in conference history to collect four SEC All-Defensive Team distinctions, while only three others have collected three.

Zakai Zeigler secured Defensive Player of the Year, Chaz Lanier earned Newcomer of the Year and Jahmai Mashack garnered SEC All-Defensive Team recognition.

Three members of the University of Tennessee men’s basketball team collected All-SEC honors from the league’s head coaches, as announced Monday afternoon by the conference office. For the second consecutive season,

Tennessee basketball is in Year 3 of a rebuild under Rick Barnes following the NBA departures of Grant Williams, Admiral Schofield and Jordan Bone. The Vols are facing North Carolina, a Tar Heels squad that will fall just short of a national title to Kansas in a little over 4 months.

Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark is fresh off a stellar rookie season, living up to the hype that followed her to the WNBA after a dominant collegiate career with the Iowa Hawkeyes. Clark, the No. 1 pick in last year's WNBA draft, was named the 2024 WNBA Rookie of the Year while earning All-WNBA ...