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Welcome into Locked-on Balls, your team every day.

My name is Josh Ward.

Thank you for being here today.

I hope everybody had a great weekend.

This is going to be a busy show as the first segment will continue some of the

conversation from the last show or two as we continue to kind of carry things over from

signing day. And I think the positive momentum that Tennessee has carried over into the offseason,

from winning six straight games to in the season, to putting together a good class, to the comments made

by not only Philip Fulmer, but also Jeremy Pruitt, talking about expectations going up.

Expectations are not just going up within Tennessee's fan base.

Expectations are going up with Tennessee's coaching staff.

I'll explain that coming up here in just a few minutes.

I'll get to Tennessee basketball in segment number two. Tennessee had a disappointing loss

to Kentucky. Not a surprising loss. Tennessee went in as actually kind of a slight underdog,

but Kentucky's a good team and Tennessee is in, I would describe, a rebuilding year for the program.

So I'll get to that.

You'll hear from Rick Barnes.

You will hear from Jordan Bowden, Tennessee's lone senior, talking about leading the way.

And he continues to struggle shooting the basketball.

I'll get to that in segment number two.

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