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Watch: Tennessee's Senior Day ceremony after the 75-65 win over South Carolina

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Tennessee Basketball | Tennessee Athletics
Tennessee Basketball | Tennessee Athletics

Tennessee said farewell to seven seniors following the Vols 75-65 win over South Carolina.

Seniors Zakai Zeigler, Jahmai Mashack, Jordan Gainey, Chaz Lanier, Igor Milicic and Darlinstone Dubar were all honored following the win in their final game at Food City Center.

Lanier’s 20 points in the second half helped fuel the Vols to the win and the entire group has helped Tennessee win 25 games this season. The fourth straight time it has happened which is a school record. Lanier, Milici and Dubar all transferred in and played just one year in orange. Gainey has played the last two seasons as a Vol. 

Zeigler and Mashack are the rare four year players in your program and have been catalyst for taking Tennessee basketball to a different level. 

In their time as Vols, Tennessee has never been unranked that’s 77 straight weeks. Forty-six weeks have been in the top 10, 23 in the top five and five weeks at No. 1. 

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Tennessee won the SEC Tournament in 2022 — the program’s first conference tournament championship since 1979 — after beating Mississippi State, Kentucky and Texas A&M over three days in Tampa. 

The Vols played for the SEC Tournament title in both 2018 and 2019, losing to Kentucky in 2018 in St. Louis and to Auburn a year later in Nashville.

Tennessee was one-and-done in the SEC Tournament a year ago, losing 73-56 to Mississippi State before going on an NCAA Tournament run to the Elite Eight. 

The Vols lost in the quarterfinals to Missouri in 2023, after beating Ole Miss a day earlier, and went to the semifinals in 2021 before losing to Alabama.

Tennessee played three games in the 2016 SEC Tournament, in the first year under Rick Barnes, beating Auburn and Vanderbilt before losing to LSU in the quarterfinals as the No. 12 seed. The Vols were one-and-done in 2017 after a loss to Georgia in the No. 8 vs. No. 9 seed game.

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