EXPERT: Tennessee Lands TOP-RANKED Transfer Portal Player | Will Ja’Kobi Gillespie TRANSFORM Vols' Offense?

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🗓️ 7 April 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Tennessee Volunteers basketball lands a game-changing point guard: Ja’Kobi Gillespie, the top-ranked player in the transfer portal. How will this impact the Volunteers' backcourt dynamics next season for Rick Barnes? This episode dives into Tennessee's strategic moves in basketball transfer portal recruiting and features insights from Matt Ray of Volquest.com on Josh Heupel’s football recruiting. The discussion spotlighting high-profile prospects like Tommy Tofi and Craig Tutt, along with five-star running back Savion Hiter. Plus, a recap of the Tennessee Volunteers baseball series against Texas A&M, highlighting a no-hitter victory and subsequent challenges the rest of the series. Join us for an in-depth analysis of Tennessee's athletic landscape and discover how these developments could shape the future. Don't miss out on exclusive insights and expert commentary. 0:00 Tennessee basketball's top transfer portal commit 5:04 Other Names to Know for Tennessee in Transfer Portal 9:50 Matt Ray of Volquest.com 11:40 Four-star OL Tommy Tofi's visit to Tennessee 15:20 Four-star LB TJ White back on campus 18:22 Tight end recruitment and Matt Ludwig's visit 25:54 Tennessee baseball series loss to Texas A&M 31:00 Historic no-hitter followed by disappointing losses

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0:00.0	Hey, congratulations, everybody. Tennessee basketball picked up the top ranked player in the
0:04.2	Transfer Portal, this according to one prominent college basketball analyst. Who is it? Who said
0:10.5	it? And how good can the Tennessee basketball team be? All that and more. It's your Monday,
0:14.9	Lockdown Balls.
0:30.8	You are Locked on Balls, your daily podcast on the Tennessee Volunteers, part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day. What is up, everybody? Welcome into a new week and a new episode of Lockdown Falls.
0:35.0	Appreciate you guys for being here making Lockdown Falls your first listen, your first watch each and every single morning. We are part of the
0:40.7	Lockdown Podcast Network, right as your team every single day. Tennessee basketball season
0:44.4	has come to an end. Obviously that happened last week. It's unfortunate, but right into
0:49.7	the transfer portal. And one prominent basketball analyst has said that Tennessee's transfer portal commit from Jacoby Gillespie on Friday afternoon is the best player in the portal class.
1:00.8	More on that here in a moment and Gillespie's commit to the Tennessee volunteers.
1:04.6	All that coming up here in just a couple of seconds.
1:06.7	Matt Ray, VaultQuest.com.
1:08.0	My colleague's going to break down all the ends and the outs of the recruiting weekend from Tennessee Spring Practice. That's coming up in segment number two. And baseball, ma'am, the highest of highs, the lowest of lows this weekend for the former top-ranked team in the country. That mean the Tennessee volunteers, we're going to recap it. We'll talk. We'll have a little therapy session coming up in segment number three right here on a Monday show. Don't forget Twitter Tuesday. Well, really, we've rebranded it because Twitter's no more. It's X. Melbaq show that's coming up tomorrow. So send in your questions, your comments, your concerns, anything you guys want to ask me for a Tuesday lockdown ball. So do my best to answer those questions for you every day.
1:44.4	I'll go ahead and send those in right now.
1:46.2	Okay, so Jacoby Gillespie has committed to the University of Tennessee.
1:50.7	We previewed it.
1:51.6	We talked about it.
1:52.4	We mentioned last week on the show all the connections that he has to East Tennessee.
1:56.6	So in case you missed that show, Jacoby Gillespie coming from Maryland,
2:02.0	where he was a third team, all big 10 performer, his lone season with Maryland.
2:06.6	He spent his first two seasons in college basketball at Belmont.
2:10.2	But what's notable here is he is from East Tennessee.
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