Barnes has said multiple times this season that Lanier long ago got tired of tucking his shirt back in during games, because it'll get pulled back out the next time Tennessee has the ball.

But there’s still an underdog story. His name is Chaz Lanier. “I have to pinch myself a lot of the time,” Lanier said Thursday at the NCAA Tournament Midwest Regional in Indianapolis.

“You expect him to take those shots, and I tell him every time he shoots the ball, I think it’s going in,” senior point guard Zakai Zeigler said of Lanier. “So if he misses, I want him to ...

“At the time, I really didn’t see the vision that I guess Coach Driscoll had,” Lanier told Yahoo Sports. “He always saw the light shining bright inside of me, and I guess I didn’t see ...