On the surface, it seemed impossible. Tennessee basketball was in line to return everybody who wasn’t a senior from this past year’s team. Josiah-Jordan James was too injured to build his draft stock, John Fulkerson doesn’t have an NBA body and Yves Pons still needs to work on his offense.
However, a couple of stories that came out on Wednesday all of a sudden has us thinking that maybe Pons, who just finished his junior season, could leave. The main one Pons being listed as the No. 32 overall prospect by Rob Dauster of NBC in his overall 2020 Mock Draft.