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Tennessee loses starting forward Nkamhoua to ankle injury

Drew Franklinby: Drew Franklin02/07/22DrewFranklinKSR
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Tennessee Basketball suffered a significant loss to its roster over the weekend with an injury to Olivier Nkamhoua in the Vols’ win at South Carolina.

Nkamhoua, the team’s starting forward, suffered an injury to his left ankle in the second half of Saturday’s game in Columbia. Today, Tennessee announced Nkamhoua will need surgery to repair the ankle and will likely miss the remainder of his junior season with the Vols. Rick Barnes does not expect to have him back in 2021-22.

Prior to going down, Nkamhoua started in 22 of 22 games at either the power forward or center spot for Tennessee. In those 22 games, Nkamhoua averaged 8.6 points and 5.6 rebounds in over 20 minutes per game.

Against Kentucky in Lexington, Nkamhoua was a non-factor on the glass with zero rebounds but he did make three of his four shot attempts in the lopsided loss. He will be unavailable in the rematch in Knoxville a week from tomorrow.

Nkamhoua’s unavailability is a tough hit to the third-place Vols’ rotation with games against Kentucky, Auburn, and Arkansas still to come, among others.

The Cats tip off in Knoxville next Tuesday night at 9 p.m.

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2025-08-02