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Tennessee’s Zakai Ziegler to miss rest of season with torn ACL
By CHARLIE PARENT
Tennessee starting point guard Zakai Ziegler will miss the rest of the season with a torn ACL, the team announced Wednesday.
He suffered the injury just minutes into the Vols’ 75-57 win over Arkansas on Tuesday.
The New York native, who is in his second season at Tennessee, was a Naismith Defensive Player of the Year semifinalist and Tennessee’s second leading scorer with 10.7 points per game. He also ranks top-30 in the country in assists with 5.4 per game.
The Vols’ will now play point guard by “committee” between Josiah-Jordan James and Jahmai Mashack head coach Rick Barnes said.
Tennessee (22-8, 11-6 SEC) currently holds the No. 4 position in the SEC standings and were placed as a No. 3 seed in Joe Lunardi’s recent bracketology.
They travel to Auburn for their final regular season game on Saturday.
one thing we know for sure— there is no keeping Zakai Zeigler down
