With tonight’s win, @Vol_Hoops became the first program with three wins over Kentucky at Rupp Arena during the John Calipari era.
Rick Barnes is the only active head coach in the nation with three wins as an opponent at Rupp Arena.
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Providing statistical information, news and notes on all @Vol_Sports teams. Managed by the Tennessee Athletics Strategic Communications staff.
- Tennessee is the only school to have hosted ESPN College GameDay for football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball. @Vol_Football - 11x @Vol_Hoops - 3x (after Saturday) @LadyVol_Hoops - 2x (after Thursday)
- Josh Heupel is the first @Vol_Football head coach to score 40+ points in three of the first six games of his tenure.
- With tonight’s road win over South Carolina, @Vol_Hoops ties its longest winning streak in program history at 15 games. Tennessee also completed a perfect January for the first time since the 1944-45 season.
- Evan Russell is the first player in @Vol_Baseball program history with multiple games of three home runs.
- Grant Williams is just the 10th player in conference history to win SEC Player of the Year in back-to-back years and the first since Arkansas' Corliss Williamson won the award in 1994 and 1995. He joins as Bernard King and Dale Ellis as Tennessee's only two-time winners.
- Saturday’s @Vol_Football game against Akron marks the first sellout in Neyland Stadium for a non-conference contest since Sept. 12, 2015 vs. Oklahoma.
- Cedric Tillman is the first @Vol_Football player to record six or more receptions in five straight games since Cedrick Wilson did so in 1999.
- For the first time since 2000 and 2001, @Vol_Baseball has won 40 or more games in consecutive full seasons.
- Only 4 quarterbacks in @SEC history have 50 career passing TDs & 25 career rushing TDs 🏈 @TimTebow @JManziel2 @dak @josh_dobbs1 🚀
- Darrell Taylor's four-sack performance today against Kentucky is just the third four-sack game in Tennessee history, joining Reggie White (1983 vs. Citadel) and Corey Miller (2013 at Kentucky).
- Darrell Taylor's three sacks today against Georgia are the most by a Vol in a single game since Derek Barnett also had three against South Carolina on Oct. 29, 2016.
- According to @espn research, Tennessee is the first team ever to win six straight home games against AP top-five opponents, breaking the record of five previously held by Kentucky from both 1978-84 and 1956-59.ran our home win-streak over top-5 opponents to six a new SEC record, per ESPN
