TSU is the only state-funded historically black college or university (HBCU) in Tennessee. Tennessee finished that year with a 16-0 record, the only time in Tennessee basketball history that a team has gone undefeated. The team last played in the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament in 2011. Location: Knoxville, Tennessee Seasons: 111 (1908 … The Vols were then defeated by Michigan State by one point, 70-69, on a Spartan foul shot with 1.8 seconds left in the game to fall short of their first Final Four. The Tennessee Lady Volunteers basketball team represents the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee in NCAA women's basketball competition. [1] A Mr. Basketball is named for each of five divisions competing in Tennessee boys' basketball. A record of 9-7 in the first round, 3-5 in the second, and 1-4 in the regional semi finals. The Avon Williams campus is located downtown, near the center of the Nashville business and government district. The team last played in the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament in 2011. Historically Volunteer basketball has produced several successful National Basketball Association players including Allan Houston, Bernard King, Ernie Grunfeld, Dale Ellis, Tony White, Ron Slay, and Larry Robinson. The Volunteers currently compete in the Southeastern Conference. and its motto, "Think, Work, Serve.". They have won nine regular season SEC championships in 1936, 1941, 1943, 1967, 1972, 1977, 1982, 2000, and 2008. After the Buzz Peterson era was less than a successful endeavor, Tennessee hired Bruce Pearl from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in 2005. The team has been a contender for national titles for over thirty years, having made every NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship tournament since the NCAA began sanctioning women's sports in the 1981–82 season. A Mr. Basketball is named for each of five divisions competing in Tennessee boys' basketball. TSU projects itself to its students, faculty, and alumni and to the citizens of the State through the school's charge "Enter to learn, go forth to serve." The Tennessee Volunteers basketball team represents the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee in NCAA men's basketball competition. Each year the Tennessee Mr. Basketball award is given to the person chosen as the best high school boys' basketball player in the U.S. state of Tennessee by the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association. The 1972, 1977, 1982, and 2000 seasons were all shared championships with another team from the Southeastern conference. Basketball Wiki is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. This distinction ended in 2018 when Hampton left the MEAC for the Big South Conference; North Carolina A&T will make the same move in 2021. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Bernard King is one of only two players in the Volunteers history to ever have a jersey retired (the other being Ernie Grunfeld). The 450 acre (1.8 km²) main campus has more than 65 buildings and is located in a residential setting at 3500 John A. Merritt Blvd in Nashville, Tennessee. They have also been invited to the National Invitation Tournament 11 times. Basketball Wiki is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. The Volunteers have appeared in 18 NCAA Tournaments. NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, https://basketball.fandom.com/wiki/Tennessee_Volunteers?oldid=31675. His oldest brother, Josh Bone, lettered for the Vols from 2009-11, was a contributor on Tennessee's 2010 Elite Eight team, went on to play professional basketball overseas after earning his degree from UT and is no the men's basketball video coordinator at Tennessee State. The Volunteers currently compete in the Southeastern Conference. Tennessee Volunteers School History. (Women's teams at the school, which has a completely separate women's athletic program, are known as "Lady Volunteers".) https://basketball.fandom.com/wiki/Tennessee_State_Tigers?oldid=66198. (Women's teams at the school, which has a completely separate women's athletic program, are known as "Lady Volunteers".) Tennessee State University (TSU) is a comprehensive, urban, coeducational land-grant university founded in 1912. Pearl's assistants Tony Jones, Steve Forbes, Jacob Nichols, Jason Shay, and Ken Johnson round out the winning staff that has helped bring the Vols to the NCAA tournament five years in a row. In the 2006-07 season The Volunteers were ranked 4th nationally in attendance with an average of 19,661 fans in Thompson-Boling Arena, which has a capacity of 21,758. For more than 30 years, TSU was the only Division I HBCU that was not a member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) or Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC), the two D-I conferences whose full members are all HBCUs. On March 27, 2011, he Volunteers hired Missouri State's Cuonzo Martin to replace … Their conference tournament record is 54-43 record with 4 championships in the years 1936, 1941, 1943, and 1979. TSU is the only state-funded historically black college or university (HBCU) in Tennessee. Has another older brother, Jaryn, who is a student at Middle Tennessee. The Volunteers compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the Southeastern Conference. TSU has approximately 8,750 students with a student/faculty ratio of 17/1. In March 2009, the University of Tennessee athletic department made a statement saying that they would claim the 1916 National Championship, but would not hang a banner for such an occasion.