BREAKING: Vols add grad transfer forward

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🗓️ 27 March 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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GoVols247’s Wes Rucker (from Fort Rucker Studio) and Patrick Brown (from his house at an undisclosed location across town) convened via the magic of Al Gore’s Internets to discuss Sacred Heart grad-transfer forward E.J. Anosike’s commitment to Tennessee on Friday. The Pioneers star chose Tennessee over the rest of his top seven, a group that included Gonzaga, Louisville, Georgetown, Wake Forest, Georgia and Boston College.

Anosike, a younger brother of former Lady Vols star Nicky Anosike, spent the past three seasons at NCAA Division I program Sacred Heart, where the versatile forward blossomed into an All-Northeast Conference star.

The 6-foot-6, 245-pound Anosike averaged 15.7 points, 11.6 rebounds and 1.7 assists last season, shooting nearly 50 percent from the foot and also showing some range to the 3-point line at times. He did most of his damage in the paint, though, much like his older siblings. Nicky was a two-time national champion as a frontline force for the Lady Vols, and OD Anosike twice led Division I in rebounding at Sienna before embarking on a professional career overseas.

What kind of player is the younger Anosike? How does he fit into the Tennessee program, both from a talent and personality standpoint? What does this addition mean for the Vols? Discussions on several of those topics — and you’ll probably like answers — are included in this breaking-news episode.

The next GoVols247 Podcast episode will be released by Monday, unless major breaking news occurs before that point.

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0:00.0	Hi. What's up y'all coming to you from Fort Rucker?
0:15.0	As you can tell by the truncated version of this intro. This is a breaking news edition of the GoValls 24-7
0:26.6	podcast. Not just me on this podcast fortunately for all y'all
0:30.0	listing out there. We've got from the Blunk County Satellite Office of
0:34.0	Go Vols 24-7 down in Blunk County. We've got the one the only Grant
0:38.7	Ramey and Grant Buddy why are we bringing these people a breaking news podcast?
0:45.0	We're bringing it because of the ever-changing world of the transfer market,
0:50.0	Tennessee had a spot, Tennessee basketball had a spot open.
0:53.5	For a few days on its 2021 basketball roster, and they seem to have filled it with a commitment
0:59.0	from E.J. Anasiki, the the 66 245 pound junior power forward out of Sacred Heart.
1:05.6	Obviously that name sounds from noted to Tennessee basketball fans, his older sister
1:09.4	Nicki won a couple national championships.
1:11.8	With the Lady Vols, he averaged, you know, 15 and what was it,
1:14.4	15 and 7 and I think 11.6 rebounds last year's Sacred Heart. So a big body that they needed in the post and they didn't take long to find one and he should help them quite a bit next year.
1:27.5	Yeah, for those who need the details on this Grant mentioned most of them, it's E.J. Anosicki, six foot six. Some places list him at
1:35.6	at six foot seven, some list him at six foot six, so you know that means he's
1:38.4	probably six foot four, but just kidding, sort of. Anyways, this is an undersized combo slash power forward undersized in terms of height not in terms of length or
1:50.4	like weight this kid weighs 245 pounds he's big big physical kid
1:54.1	average 15.7 points 11.6 rebounds and 1.7 assists per game
1:59.7	while shooting 49% from the field last season.
2:03.0	And for those of you who don't know much about Sacred Heart basketball,
2:06.0	you're not wrong.
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