Tennessee Men's Basketball Deep Dive Preview, Ja'Kobi Gillespie vs. Zakai Zeigler & East Tennessee High School Football Week 9 Preview With Mark Pancratz & Knox News' Wynton Jackson
The Chase Thomas Podcast: A Tennessee Volunteers Show
Chase Thomas
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🗓️ 17 October 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
On today's program, former Tennessee men's basketball assistant coach Mark Pancratz joins the program to talk all things Tennessee Volunteers men's basketball, Ja'Kobi Gillespie versus Zakai Zeigler, Rick Barnes' rotation battle, offensive questions for the Vols and Year 2 of the Kim Caldwell era for the Lady Vols. Then, Knoxville News Sentinel's Wynton Jackson joins the program to preview Week 9 of the high school football season for East Tennessee, the biggest games, biggest surprises this season, best player in East Tennessee, postseason seeding battles and much more.
Host: Chase Thomas
Guests: Mark Pancratz, Wynton Jackson
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| 0:00.0 | Chase Thomas podcast. The Chase Thomas podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | My nephew needs me to record. See, I hate, I already hate it. I hate it. |
| 0:08.5 | All right. We're back here on the Chase Thomas podcast where I'm now joined by Mark |
| 0:12.8 | Pancracks, Pancrat's pack on the program here on this Friday afternoon, former Tennessee |
| 0:18.3 | assistant coach, now with Axiom wealth management. |
| 0:21.4 | He's all over the place. |
| 0:22.8 | It's almost his time of year. |
| 0:24.9 | We're right there. |
| 0:25.8 | Basketball season is back, Mark. |
| 0:27.8 | Are you ready for another season of Tennessee Hoops? |
| 0:30.9 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:31.4 | I mean, I'm super excited. |
| 0:33.6 | You know, it feels real different this year with the changing of the roster. |
| 0:37.9 | You've been so accustomed to seeing Zaki at Meshach and those guys. |
| 0:42.5 | And we got a full new roster with some young guys, some veterans. |
| 0:48.3 | The league is loaded. |
| 0:50.1 | And so I'm fired up for some basketball. |
| 0:54.0 | When you look at the turnover here and just going from a long time stalwart into Kai Ziegler and then obviously a great program guy like Jemai Meishak, is there too much being made about that kind of turnover from year to year with this year's Tennessee team? |
| 1:10.0 | Or do you think it actually is something |
| 1:11.4 | that hey it's just going to take a lot of time and this will it's not an instantaneous fix |
| 1:16.9 | replacing those kind of long-term veteran leaders for Tennessee well I think there's it's multifaceted |
| 1:24.2 | question when you're placing those guys first and and foremost, you know, I think about the |
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