From Ray Mears to Don DeVoe to Jerry Green to Cuonzo Martin, the history of Tennessee Vols basketball is a bit of a mixed bag.
Sure, it has achieved nowhere near the level of success that the football program or women’s basketball program has. Heck, it’s nowhere near the softball or track and field programs either.
But there is quite a bit of impressive Tennessee basketball history even if they are still waiting to reach their first Final Four.
With coaching stability having a long history of being an issue in Knoxville, their level of success over the past five decades is actually remarkable, even with the long bad stretches in between.