Junior College point guard Bobby Maze has verbally committed to play basketball at Tennessee next season. This comes after Ramar Smith and Duke Crews were dismissed from the team just last week.

That’s right, today’s blog post is about a former Lady Vol basketball player. Why? I’m not sure any Lady Vol aside from Candace Parker has ever been the recipient of as much message board and blog chatter as Brittany Jackson [a quick search of the Volnation forums returned 92 threads].

I know, it’s football season but I thought the basketball team heading off to Europe was news worthy. Here are coach Pearl’s comments before heading out.

I don’t know if I ever remember talking so much about Tennessee basketball in the month of April. It’s amazing to me, it really is.

At the risk of being sacrilegious, I would like to tell you a bit about our basketball team. Last season, before the UAB game I went to Thompson Boling Arena to watch our basketball team play a pick up game.