John Adams

OKLAHOMA CITY — Tennessee’s advance to the Elite Eight was distinguished by a changing of the guards Sunday afternoon at Chesapeake Energy Arena.

OKLAHOMA CITY — College basketball is clearly distinguished by the regular season and postseason.

Tennessee won one-on-one Monday night at Thompson-Boling Arena.

Kamiko Williams’ last home game won’t have all the familiarity of home. The NCAA won’t allow it.

The last thing Tennessee could have anticipated was a Baylor preview in the first round of the NCAA women’s basketball tournament.

Don’t call Taber Spani a team player. The description shortchanges her.

A slender woman in an orange jacket excused herself as she moved in between two onlookers at Tennessee’s pro day early Wednesday afternoon.

Holly Warlick had no complaints when the NCAA women’s basketball tournament field was announced Monday night.

There’s nothing cryptic about how to succeed in an NCAA basketball tournament. You survive and advance, we are told with numbing repetition.

A television interview with SEC commissioner Mike Slive quickly turned to football Friday night between SEC tournament basketball games.

NASHVILLE — Cuonzo Martin declared his Tennessee team NCAA tournament fit after it knocked off Missouri in the last game of the regular season a week ago.

NASHVILLE — Tennessee doesn’t begrudge Alabama its extra bye before today’s SEC tournament quarterfinal match-up.

NASHVILLE — Maybe this will be the tournament nobody wins.

DULUTH, Ga. — Texas A&M coach Gary Blair remembers the futility of trying to recruit Tennessee’s Taber Spani.

DULUTH, Ga. — Tennessee planned on celebrating its quarterfinal victory in the SEC women’s basketball tournament with an ice bath Friday afternoon.