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Tennessee Basketball: Rick Barnes updates the status of Josiah-Jordan James ahead of SEC opener

IMG_3593by:Grant Ramey•12/27/22•

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Tennessee win Josiah-Jordan James finishes at the rim in a 75-43 win over Tennessee Tech on Monday, November 7, 2022. (Tennessee Athletics)

There has been no change to the status of Tennessee senior wing Josiah-Jordan James ahead of the sixth-ranked Vols opening SEC play at Ole Miss on Wednesday. The game is scheduled for a 5 p.m. Eastern Time start on SEC Network, from The Pavilion at Ole Miss in Oxford.

“He’s doing a little bit more with Chad and Garrett,” Tennessee coach Rick Barnes said on Tuesday, referencing team trainer Chad Newman and strength coach Garrett Medenwald, “but with us, he’ll warm up with us a little bit, but he hasn’t gotten in on five-on-five stuff yet.”

Last week against Austin Peay. James sat out for a third straight game and his seventh of the season due to knee soreness. He missed four in a row earlier this season, then returned Tennessee’s 94-40 win over Alcorn State. Last week against Eastern Kentukcy he played 17 minutes off the bench after playing 14 against Alcorn.

“It’s important for him to get (healthy) more than anything,” Barnes said last week. “If you know Josiah, it’s killing him that he can’t get out there. He wants to be 100 percent, his teammates do. We all feel for him because we know how hard he works at it.”

James, who underwent a knee scope in the spring, played the first three games of the regular season before missing the next four.

Tennessee at Ole Miss: How to watch, stream, listen

Tipoff Time: 5 p.m. ET, Wednesday

Location: The Pavilion at Ole Miss

Streaming: SEC Network (Play-by-play Courtney Lyle; Analyst — Mark Wise). ESPN App or WatchESPN.com

Radio: WNML-FM 99.1 in Knoxville. The Vol Network radio broadcast (Bob Kesling – play-by-play – Bert Bertelkamp, analyst) can be heard on local affiliates across the state of Tennessee. The game can be heard on Satellite Radio on SiriusXM Channel 138 or Channel 961 on the SiriusXM App.

The game can also be streamed online through ESPN+, the streaming platform from ESPN that requires a paid subscription. ESPN+ is separate from cable or satellite subscriptions. More info can be found here.

SEC Home Opener: Vols vs. Mississippi State, January 3

The Vols will host Mississippi State on January 3 in the SEC home opener at Thompson-Boling Arena. The game will start at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN2.

The January SEC schedule for Tennessee also includes home games against Vanderbilt (January 10), Kentucky (January 14) and Georgia (January 25). The Vols play at South Carolina (January 7), at Mississippi State (January 17) at LSU (January 21).

Texas, the final non-conference game on schedule, will be played January 28 at Thompson-Boling Arena in the Big 12-SEC Challenge.

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