The Day's Summary

Tennessee used Saturday for work away from public view, playing Davidson in a closed preseason scrimmage as part of its preparations for the regular season. Scrimmages of this kind give Rick Barnes and his staff a chance to test the Volunteers against outside competition, and highlights from the matchup were pointed to even though the game itself was held behind closed doors.

Because it was a secret scrimmage, no score, statistics or account of individual performances were available, and none should be read into the day. What it confirms is readiness work: whatever Tennessee learned against Davidson will feed into its final preparations before the games begin to count.