No. 12 Tennessee will open its 2024-25 regular season Nov. 4 against Gardner-Webb.
The Vols won the 2023-24 SEC regular-season championship and reached the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament for the second time in school history last season.
During the preseason, Vols Wire previews student-athletes on Tennessee’s 2024-25 men’s basketball roster. This installment will feature Chaz Lanier.
Lanier, a guard and fifth-year player for the Vols, makes his return to the Volunteer State after playing four years at North Florida. He played high school basketball at the Ensworth School in Nashville, Tennessee.
During his senior season at North Florida last year, Lanier appeared in 32 games, including 31 starts. He was a First-Team All-Atlantic Sun standout and a 2023-24 NABC First-Team All-District player.
As a junior for North Florida, Lanier appeared in all 31 of his team’s games, making nine starts. He started the first eight games of the season and averaged 4.7 points, 2.5 rebounds and 0.9 assists in 19.1 minutes per game.
During his sophomore season with the Ospreys, he averaged 4.5 points, 2.7 rebounds and 1.1 assists per game.
As a freshman at North Florida, Lanier appeared in 10 games, making one start. He totaled 17 points, seven rebounds, playing 91 minutes. Lanier had at least one assist in five games and committed three turnovers in his first season of college basketball.