Vols' Pons returning for senior season

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🗓️ 3 August 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

GoVols247’s Wes Rucker and Grant Ramey convened via the magic of Al Gore’s Internets to discuss the importance of Yves Pons’ decision to return to Tennessee for his senior season.

Pons, the reigning SEC Defensive Player of the Year, initially declared for the NBA Draft before reversing course Monday night and choosing to return for his senior season with the Vols.

What was already a championship-contending roster suddenly looks even stronger. Pons’ return makes a sturdy crop of returning players even stronger, and Tennessee just enrolled one of the nation’s top recruiting classes to bolster it.

How close was Pons to remaining in the draft? Why did he choose to come back? What does that return mean for Tennessee’s rotation? How many more options will the Vols have now, assuming everyone stays healthy? What can Pons do as a senior to improve his stock heading into the 2021 draft? Those are the primary points of discussion in this one-segment, breaking-news episode.

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

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0:00.0	Hi. What's up y'all? Welcome on into the Go Vols 24-7 podcast West Rucker coming to you from
0:18.7	Fort Rucker Studio on a Monday night and as you can tell by the truncated version of the intro.
0:24.4	This is a breaking news edition of the GoValls 24-7 podcast joined by Grant Ramey
0:29.6	from the GoValls 24-7 Blount County Satellite Office I think is what we're still going to call that the Blount
0:37.2	County Satellite Office down there in Maryville Tennessee. We got some big big news for Tennessee basketball and Grant I'll give you the honors.
0:47.0	Why are we having this breaking news podcast?
0:50.0	Eve Ponce is back.
0:51.0	He has withdrawn his name from the 2020
0:53.4	NBA draft pool and he's coming back to Tennessee for his senior season after he
0:59.7	didn't completely go to the 1159 p.m. deadline on Monday but he did kind of wait around until
1:06.3	after practice Monday evening after there's some interesting reporting going on
1:10.4	about the situation and tweets and deleted tweets and second phrase tweets and you know all
1:17.0	the fun stuff that goes along with about the end of the day he's coming back he announced
1:19.9	it made it official on social media so huge news for Tennessee basketball.
1:25.3	That's what they really needed and they got it.
1:28.0	Yeah and I heard from a couple people I know in the NBA who you know scouting type people people who work in
1:35.3	organizations and they had they had told me that that one of them said it
1:41.2	pretty boldly the other one said it less confidently but both of them two of them anyways believe that he would come back to Tennessee
1:47.8	because he would not have minded going and I still think it would have been his preference to go but
1:53.9	after kind of judging the situation looking back objectively I think he made what
1:59.9	he felt like was the best decision and And I know that even as of Monday,
2:03.6	he was still kind of not sure earlier in the day,
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