Tennessee Basketball: Josiah-Jordan James (knee) out against Ole Miss
Tennessee senior wing Josiah-Jordan James is out again for the sixth-ranked Vols today against Ole Miss in the SEC opener at SBJ Pavilion in Oxford. The game is scheduled for a 5 p.m. Eastern Time start on SEC Network.
Tennessee coach Rick Barnes said on Tuesday that there had been no change to the status of James, who is missing his eighth game of the season due to knee soreness.
“He’s doing a little bit more with Chad and Garrett,” Barnes said, 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.”
James, who had his knee scoped in the spring and had three injections done in October, played the first three games of the regular season, then missed four straight games. He returned for two games, but is missing his fourth straight game since then.
He returned in Tennessee’s 94-40 win over Alcorn State on December 4 and played against Eastern Kentucky on December 7. He played 17 minutes off the bench against EKU 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
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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.
