LINKS: Vols at #19 in College Football Playoff Rankings

Morning folks. First up- both basketvol squads were in action last night:

Rick Barnes’ new-look “Hubbs and a bunch of freshman” team earned their first win of the season last night in the Tommy Bowl, defeating Appalachian (NOT APPY) State 103-94. Box score here; Volundore has the complete breakdown. They next play #9 Wisconsin Monday in Lahaina, Hawaii, for their opening matchup of the Maui Invitational.

Meanwhile, in Johnson City, a local-record crowd of 6,072 saw the #13 Lady Vols improve to 3-0 with the defeat of ETSU, 83-58. The Lady Vols were led by a fantastic Diamond DeShields, who put up 28 points on 11-of-16 shooting with 10 rebounds and six assists. Small sample sizes, consider the competition, blahblahblah, but looking at some early back-of-the-envelope numbers: through their first three games, the Lady Vols are shooting (a probably unsustainable!) 49.3% from beyond the arc, good for 9.3 threes a game, compared to 25% and 3.6 last year. Maybe more importantly long-term, they’re currently attempting 18.6 threes a game, versus 14.3 in 2015. Hurrah for spacing!

In other Lady Vols news, Murfreesboro’s Anastasia Hayes (5* PG, No. 9 nationally overall) committed to the Lady Vols Monday, becoming the first commit of Tennessee’s ‘17 class.

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Despite being (a little pointedly!) left out of the Coaches and AP polls the last couple weeks, Tennessee made their debut Tuesday in the ‘16-’17 Playoff Rankings at #19. Which is ahead of #23 Florida. Which is literally the only thing in the world LINKS cares about any more.

If reading a painstaking statistical breakdown of the Vanderbilt-Mizzou football game is how your want to spend your brief time on this earth, fly thee like the weaver’s shuttle hence. Tennessee is currently a 16.5 point favorite over the Tigers.

Make of it what you will, but Sunday 2017 Vols commit Chase Rogers (3* TE) reopened his recruitment, posting the following on the Twitters:

We’ll have a full injury report later in the week, but C Dylan Weisman, S Todd Kelly, and special-teams-person Daniel Bituli all left Saturday’s game with injuries. Monday Butch Jones said Weisman and Kelly were day-to-day.

Tennessee target K'Rojhn Calbert (3* OT, TN #19) of McMinnville, TN will announce his college choice at noon today, if you got those blurry-livestream/tables-with-hats feels going on.

THIS HAS BEEN YOUR WEDNESDAY LINKS