{"id":69104,"date":"2025-11-29T02:10:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T02:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/69104\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T02:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T02:10:12","slug":"houston-hc-kelvin-sampson-every-coach-in-america-would-love-to-have-bishop-boswell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/69104\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston HC Kelvin Sampson: ‘Every Coach In America Would Love To Have’ Bishop Boswell"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\"\"\"\"<\/a>Photo By Andrew Ferguson\/Tennessee Athletics<\/p>\n

No Tennessee basketball profile raised his stock more in Las Vegas than Bishop Boswell who not only returned from injury but excelled in the Vols\u2019 three games at the Players Era Festival.<\/p>\n

Boswell played well in all three games but turned in his best outing of the week in Tennessee\u2019s 76-73 win over Houston. The shooting guard recorded three steals while adding 10 points, three assists and four rebounds.<\/p>\n

The sophomore guard was arguably the most impactful player on the court and earned serious praise from Houston head coach Kelvin Sampson.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe kid that should be mentioned, though, not a lot of people will remember his impact, but it was Bishop Boswell,\u201d Sampson said. \u201cHe impacted that game. No idea what his future holds in this game, but that kid is a winner. He was the toughest guy on the floor tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boswell consistently stepped up in big moments in the Houston game. He was a big reason the Vols remained in the game after falling behind by double-digits in the first half, turning defense into offense and making all four field goal attempts. Boswell also drilled two critical free throws with Tennessee in the bonus late in the game.<\/p>\n

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\u201cA lot of respect for that young man,\u201d Sampson said. \u201cHe\u2019s tough and he\u2019s a winner. Every coach in America would love to have Boswell.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Charlotte native started Tennessee\u2019s first two games of the season before a right foot and left hamstring injury sidelined him for Tennessee\u2019s three games prior to Players Era. Tennessee head coach Rick Barnes said that Tennessee\u2019s starting shooting guard will be its best defender at the spot.<\/p>\n

Barnes has challenged Boswell to be an elite perimeter defender and fill that role. He did a strong job seizing that opportunity as Tennessee faced its first true test of the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he\u2019s becoming one of the best defensive guards in the country and there\u2019s no doubt that it\u2019s a hard role to put a player to want to buy into, to want to do it, but he\u2019s all about team,\u201d Barnes said.<\/a> \u201cHe wants to win more than anything else, and we knew during the whole recruiting process he was a winner and he would do whatever it would take. We\u2019re asking him to fill a major role and he\u2019s embraced it, and obviously proud of him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over three games at Players Era, Boswell averaged 6.3 points on 77.8 shooting from the field, four assists, three steals and 2.7 rebounds rebounds per game. He filled the stat sheet while also playing strong perimeter defense\u2014 a role Tennessee needed him to fill.<\/p>\n

Shooting guard rotation was a question for Tennessee ahead of its first power five challenges. Boswell made that picture more clear with his performance in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo By Andrew Ferguson\/Tennessee Athletics No Tennessee basketball profile raised his stock more in Las Vegas than Bishop…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33963,56,33615,58,57,3113,21398,33616],"class_list":["post-69104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-bishop-boswell","tag-houston","tag-houston-basketball","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-kelvin-sampson","tag-rick-barnes","tag-tennessee-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}