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GoVols247: A Tennessee Volunteers athletics podcast

Ohio State big man picks Tennessee

GoVols247: A Tennessee Volunteers athletics podcast

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4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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GoVols247's Wes Rucker and Ben McKee discuss the newest commitment to the Tennessee basketball program — big man Felix Okpara, a Nigeria native who spent the past two seasons at Ohio State. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's going to happen tonight? What's going to happen?

0:05.0

What's going to happen? We're going to whoop this. Have you got around? So if y'all welcome on into the Go Volalls 24-7 podcast,

0:22.6

West record coming to you from Fort Record Studio.

0:24.8

And we got a Breaking News edition

0:26.2

of the GoValls 24-7 podcast.

0:27.9

Going to go over to that new unnamed home studio,

0:30.2

get to Ben McKee.

0:31.0

Ben, why are we having another one of these breaking news

0:33.3

editions of the Goeballs 24-7 podcast? Because Ohio State Center Felix

0:39.1

Akpara has committed to Tennessee. I hope that I'm pronouncing his last name correctly. I believe

0:47.0

that I am. He is Nigerian. He made his way over to the United States at 18 or I guess I should say in 2018 not at the age of

0:56.2

18 but in 2018 and was over in familiar neck of the woods and Chattanooga played at Hamilton Heights there for a couple of years of high school basketball and then transferred to link Academy for his senior year of high school basketball there in Branson, Missouri where he actually

1:14.9

played with current Tennessee freshman Cameron Carr, I guess now rising sophomore Cameron Carr.

1:21.8

And then he also played with Julian Phillips as well former Tennessee

1:24.5

Vol.

1:25.9

So he, this one was pretty quick obviously.

1:28.8

He's somebody who entered the transfer portal on Saturday morning.

1:33.4

If you're following us over on the checker board

1:35.8

at Govost 24-7, you knew right away

1:37.9

that this was going to be a priority target

1:40.3

for Tennessee and that this would made a lot of sense just because he fits what Tennessee needs and we can get into that here a little more extensively in a moment

1:49.0

But then also in terms of Tennessee fitting what he needs. I think that applies as well and there's a bunch of ties there. I just mentioned his Chattanooga roots of sorts and I believe I don't know the exact nature of the relationship, but I believe his guardians, who he was staying with in Chattanooga, are Tennessee alums, and they accompanied him on his visit.

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