{"id":714001,"date":"2026-04-19T15:28:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T15:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/714001\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T15:28:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T15:28:02","slug":"rick-barnes-and-the-tennessee-vols-earned-a-huge-win-over-a-college-basketball-blueblood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/714001\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Barnes and the Tennessee Vols earned a huge win over a college basketball blueblood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Barnes and the Tennessee Vols earned a massive win over a college basketball blueblood on Sunday morning. The Volunteers have had a very productive offseason after coming up one game short of the Final Four.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1870\" height=\"1298\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-19-at-10.53.30-AM.png\" class=\"attachment-1280 size-1280 wp-post-image\" alt=\"Tennessee Vols\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  data-hero=\"atoz-hero\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBrianna Paciorka\/News Sentinel \/ USA TODAY NETWORK<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rick Barnes and the Tennessee Vols earned a huge win over a college basketball blueblood on Sunday morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">VCU transfer guard Terrence Hill Jr announced his commitment to Tennessee on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The decision from Hill <a href=\"https:\/\/atozsports.com\/nashville\/volunteers\/tennessee-vols-are-battling-the-kansas-jayhawks-for-coveted-transfer-guard\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">comes after he visited<\/a> the Kansas Jayhawks earlier this week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hill, 6-foot-3\/180 pounds from Portland, OR, averaged 15 points per game as a sophomore at VCU this past season. He scored a career high 34 points in VCU\u2019s overtime win against the North Carolina Tar Heels in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament last month (Hill played 40 minutes in that game). <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The talented guard has two seasons of eligibility remaining. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The addition of Hill gives the Vols a dependable three-point threat. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHill is an elite 3-point shooter and it\u2019s arguably his greatest strength,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/kansas\/article\/terrence-hill-jr-scouting-report-transfer-portal-281489245\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wrote 247Sports\u2019 Michael Swain<\/a>\u00a0of the VCU transfer. \u201cHe shot 37% from 3 on incredibly high volume. He can both create his own shot from deep and knock down shots off the catch. Roughly 25% of his 3-point attempts were unassisted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hill joins Loyola transfer center Miles Rubin, Belmont transfer guard Tyler Lundblade, Notre Dame transfer forward Jalen Haralson, and Cal transfer guard Dai Dai Ames as portal additions for the Volunteers so far this offseason. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-18-at-4.29.51-PM-200x200.png\" alt=\"Tennessee Vols\" loading=\"lazy\"   width=\"200\" height=\"200\" style=\"object-position:50% 50%\"\/>\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"query-card-horizontal__category is-style-eyebrow\">Tennessee Volunteers News<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/atozsports.com\/nashville\/volunteers\/drew-gilbert-tennessee-vols-baseball-giants-injury-viral-dugout-moment-tony-vitello\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDrew Gilbert is back with the Giants after missing time with injury and he\u2019s already had a viral dugout moment with Tony Vitello\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"is-style-body-small\">Former Tennessee Vols baseball standout Drew Gilbert was recalled by the San Francisco Giants this week. Gilbert previously played under Giants manager Tony Vitello at Tennessee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rick Barnes and the Tennessee Vols earned a massive win over a college basketball blueblood on Sunday morning.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,217,231,772,1544,12161],"class_list":{"0":"post-714001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-basketball","12":"tag-ncaab","13":"tag-tennessee-vols"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116432085899106176","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}