{"id":714639,"date":"2026-04-20T15:04:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/714639\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T15:04:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:04:24","slug":"rick-barnes-and-the-tennessee-vols-have-reportedly-expressed-interest-in-a-coveted-acc-transfer-in-recent-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/714639\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Barnes and the Tennessee Vols have reportedly expressed interest in a coveted ACC transfer in recent days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Barnes and the Tennessee Vols aren\u2019t messing around this offseason. The Volunteers are clearly motivated to build a championship-caliber roster after coming up just short of the Final Four this past season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Tennessee Vols have made some big moves this offseason in the NCAA transfer portal \u2014 the Volunteers <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/rick-barnes-tennessee-vols-earned-150426747.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:landed VCU transfer guard Terrence Hill Jr;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;landed VCU transfer guard Terrence Hill Jr&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">landed VCU transfer guard Terrence Hill Jr<\/a> over the weekend (UT\u2019s fifth portal addition) \u2014 and the program isn\u2019t done yet.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Tennessee is still in the mix for some big-time targets, including Wake Forest transfer guard Juke Harris.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Another player the Vols have reportedly expressed interest in recently is Syracuse transfer forward Donnie Freeman.<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee has reportedly expressed \u201csome interest\u201d in Donnie Freeman<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/news\/where-things-stand-for-syracuse-transfer-donnie-freeman-with-one-team-emerging\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:According to On3\u2019s Joe Tipton;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;According to On3\u2019s Joe Tipton&quot;}\" class=\"link \">According to On3\u2019s Joe Tipton<\/a>, Tennessee has expressed \u201csome interest\u201d in Freeman in recent days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Tipton, however, suggested that Tennessee is \u201cnot a major player\u201d for the Syracuse transfer.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cTennessee has also expressed some interest in Freeman in recent days, but at this point, it appears the Volunteers are not a major player,\u201d wrote Tipton on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Freeman, 6-foot-9\/205 pounds from Washington D.C., averaged 16.5 points and 7.5 rebounds while playing 31.3 minutes per game at Syracuse this past season. He has two seasons of eligibility remaining.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Syracuse beat Tennessee this past season in the ACC\/SEC Challenge, but Freeman missed that game due to injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">We\u2019ll see if the Vols circle back to Freeman. For now, though, it sounds like St. John\u2019s is the most likely landing spot for the talented forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rick Barnes and the Tennessee Vols aren\u2019t messing around this offseason. The Volunteers are clearly motivated to build&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,217,20717,6982,231,772,7989,1544,7926,12161,85557],"class_list":{"0":"post-714639","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-donnie-freeman","11":"tag-joe-tipton","12":"tag-ncaa","13":"tag-ncaa-basketball","14":"tag-ncaa-transfer-portal","15":"tag-ncaab","16":"tag-rick-barnes","17":"tag-tennessee-vols","18":"tag-terrence-hill-jr"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116437655118584338","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714639","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=714639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}