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EspañolNo. 22 Tennessee (20-8, 10-5 SEC) basketball will return to action on Saturday. The Vols will host No. 18 Alabama (21-7, 11-4 SEC) at Food City Center. Tipoff is slated for 6 p.m. EST (ESPN).
Rankings reflect the USA TODAY Sports men’s basketball coaches poll.
Saturday will mark a second meeting this season between the Vols and Crimson Tide. Tennessee won, 79-73, on Jan. 26 at Coleman Coliseum in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Beginning with the 2024-25 athletics calendar, the SEC made it mandatory for schools to provide public reports on availability of student-athletes to participate in each conference game in football, men’s basketball, women’s basketball and baseball.
A Tennessee-Alabama initial availability report is listed below for Saturday's basketball game in SEC play.
Tennessee-Alabama basketball game injury report
Tennessee junior forward Cade Phillips is out. He will miss the remainder of the 2025-26 basketball season due to a recurring shoulder injury.
"We will sincerely miss having Cade on the court and he is certainly disappointed that he won't be able to play the rest of the regular season, but it's essential he gets healthy," Barnes said on Dec. 8, 2025. "Cade did all he could to play through this injury as long as possible."
Freshman guard Clarence Massamba is also listed as out for the Vols against Alabama.
Davion Hannah, Keitenn Bristow and Collins Onyejiaka are listed as out for the Crimson Tide, while Labaron Philon is probable.
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