The 2010–11 Tennessee Volunteers basketball team represented the

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in the

2010–11 NCAA Division I men's basketball season The 2010–11 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began on November 8, 2010, with the preliminary games of the 2010 Coaches vs. Cancer Classic, and ended with the 2011 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament's championship game on April ...

. This was the sixth season for

Bruce Pearl Bruce Alan Pearl (born March 18, 1960) is an American college basketball coach, and the head coach of the Auburn Tigers men's basketball team. He previously served as the head coach at Tennessee, Milwaukee, and Southern Indiana. Pearl led Souther ...

as the Volunteers' head coach. The team, a member of the Eastern Division of the

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, played its home games at Thompson-Boling Arena. They were the champions of the 2011

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. They finished the season 19–15, 8–8 in SEC play and lost in the quarterfinals of the

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. They received an at-large bid in the

2011 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament The 2011 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament was a single-elimination tournament involving 68 teams to determine the national champion of the 2010–11 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The 73rd edition of the NCAA tournament beg ...

where they lost in the second round to

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. On March 21, 2011, Pearl was fired by the school for lying to NCAA investigators on recruiting violations.Beth Rucke
Tennessee Fires Coach Bruce Pearl
, ''Associated Press'' via NBCSports.MSNBC.com, March 21, 2011

2010–11 roster

Class of 2010 Signees

Schedule

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References

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Tennessee Volunteers basketball seasons

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