The 2007–08 Tennessee Volunteers basketball team represented the University of Tennessee in the 2008-09 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. To begin a highly touted year, the team traveled to Europe and played a few European teams going 4–1 against them. The Vols were hurt when sophomore forward Duke Crews was suspended. Crews suffered a 30-day suspension, and then missed both exhibition games with an ankle injury. Tennessee's first exhibition game was against the California-Pennsylvania Vulcans, winning handily, 106–46. Crews also missed about a month due to heart problems. The Vols finished 31–5, winning the SEC regular season championship, for the first time since 2000, but the Vols lost in the 3rd round of both the SEC and NCAA Tournament.
Roster
Name Number Team Position Height Year Ramar Smith 12 1 6–1 Sophomore JaJuan Smith 2 2 6–2 Senior Chris Lofton- C 5 3 6–2 Senior Tyler Smith 1 4 6–7 Sophomore Wayne Chism 4 5 6–9 Sophomore J. P. Prince 30 6 6–7 Sophomore Jordan Howell 15 7 6–3 Senior Brian Williams 33 8 6–10 Freshman Duke Crews 32 9 6–8 Sophomore Ryan Childress 34 10 6–9 Junior Josh Tabb 25 11 6–4 Sophomore
Legend: C = Team Captain
Non-Scholarship Players Steven Pearl, Quinn Cannington, Tanner Wild, Rick Daniels-Mulholland, Justin Jackson, Brett Jackson
Coaches Head Coach: Bruce Pearl, Associate Coach: Tony Jones, Assistant Coach: Steve Forbes, Assistant Coach: Jason Shay, Director of Basketball Operations: Ken Johnson
Schedule and results
!colspan=9 style="background:#F77F00; color:white;"| Exhibition
!colspan=9 style="background:#F77F00; color:white;"| Non-conference regular season
!colspan=9 style="background:#F77F00; color:white;"| SEC regular season
!colspan=9 style="background:#F77F00;"| SEC Tournament
!colspan=9 style="background:#F77F00;"| NCAA tournament
References