"The Season" has finally caught up with Bruce Pearl.

The University of Tennessee men's basketball team and its head coach will be profiled on and off the court for the reality show "The Season" (7:30 p.m. Wednesday, ESPN2).

An ESPN crew was in town last week "basically following the team everywhere," says Tiffany Carpenter, director of publicity for UT athletics.

Each week, "The Season" captures a week in the life of players and coaches from various colleges.

Last year, the series documented UT head football coach Phillip Fulmer and his players. That one was a two-part episode.

For the UT men's basketball episode, the crew found the players at the Lady Vols' game against Vanderbilt. They also went with Pearl to the cafeteria and attended classes with players C.J. Watson and Andre Patterson.

Carpenter described the episode as "an inside look at Tennessee basketball they show how (the team) gets along, the dynamics and sort of the quirky side of things."

From what the ESPN producers told her, they were pleased with the results of the visit.

Among the more humorous moments that will be shown: At the start of second half of the Georgia game, Pearl had Patterson and fellow team member Dane Bradshaw play "paper, rock, scissors" to figure out who was going to start.

"The show has typical things like that, things fans don't get to see from the stands," Carpenter says.

For Pearl's angle, the show will also focus on his interactions with Lady Vols head coach Pat Summitt and how they work together. They also captured Summitt and Pearl strategizing on how to make up for losses.

Crews were with players and the coach sometimes as long as 16 hours in a day. "The Season" has a quick turnaround since production ended on Thursday and less than a week later the episode is ready for air.

Last week, reports swirled around town that ESPN wants to do a reality show about Pearl, but Carpenter says she hadn't heard of such.