With the basketball season ending quicker than most thought it would, Tennessee enters one of the most revealing offseasons of the Rick Barnes era. There is a legitimate chance that the Volunteers lose four starters off this year’s squad, which didn’t exactly perform like we thought it would. Losing a lot of starters isn’t unfamiliar (it happened just a couple years ago, after all) but it’s a lot different when you don’t appear to have anyone behind them, ready to step up.
Nowhere is this more apparent than the frontcourt. A lack of recruiting, lack of development, and some bad luck means the Volunteers don’t have much to look forward to once this crop of starters leaves.