{"id":6729,"date":"2025-07-13T13:15:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T13:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/6729\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T13:15:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T13:15:04","slug":"who-tennessee-coaches-are-watching-during-live-evaluation-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/6729\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Tennessee coaches are watching during live evaluation period"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first of two live evaluation periods for college basketball coaches is taking place this weekend, with Rick Barnes<\/a> and his Tennessee<\/a> coaching staff on the road watching prospects.<\/p>\n

Barnes on Thursday and Friday was courtside for five-star shooting guard Caleb Holt<\/a>, four-star small forward Bo Ogden<\/a> and four-star power forward Latrell Almond<\/a> while the Vols had two assistant coaches watching four-star small forwards Chris Washington Jr.<\/a> and Gage Mayfield<\/a> at the Adidas 3SSB event in Georgia.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The current live evaluation period<\/a> runs through Sunday, with the second live evaluation period beginning Thursday and running through next Sunday. Recruiting dead periods are Monday-Wednesday this week, then July 20 through August 2 and August 20-31. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Caleb Holt<\/p>\n

Caleb Holt<\/a> is a 6-foot-5, 200-pound five-star shooting guard and Huntsville, Ala., native, who attends Prolific Prep in California. He\u2019s the No. 4 overall prospect in the 2026 class according to the On3 Industry Ranking. He\u2019s the No. 1 shooting guard in the class and the No. 4 overall player in the state of California.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bo Ogden<\/p>\n

Bo Ogden<\/a> is a 6-foot-5, 180-pound small forward and is the son of former Tennessee Basketball assistant coach Chris Ogden. Bo Ogden, out of Westlake High School in Austin, Texas, is a four-star prospect in the 2026 class, ranked No. 47 overall in the On3 Industry Ranking. He\u2019s the No. 16 small forward in the country and the No. 4 overall prospect in the state of Texas. Chris Ogden played for and later worked for Barnes at Texas and was on the Tennessee staff in 2015-16, the first season of the Barnes era at Texas. He\u2019s now the general manager for the Texas men\u2019s basketball program.<\/p>\n

Latrell Allmond<\/p>\n

Latrell Allmond<\/a> is a 6-foot-8, 225-pound power forward out of Richmond, Va. The four-star prospect is ranked No. 27 nationally in the On3 Industry Ranking, is the No. 3 power forward in the country and the No. 2 prospect in the state of Virginia. Allmond took an unofficial visit to Tennessee in September.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Chris Washington<\/p>\n

Chris Washington<\/a> is an in-state four-star small forward in the 2026 class, ranked No. 23 nationally. He\u2019s the No. 9 small forward in the class and is the No. 1 overall player in the state of Tennessee, out of Providence Christian Academy in Murfreesboro. Washington took an unofficial visit to Tennessee in November.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gage Mayfield<\/p>\n

Gage Mayfield<\/a> is a four-star prospect in the 2026 class, ranked No. 88 overall in the On3 ratings. The 6-foot-7, 190-pound small forward, out of Moundville, Ala., is the No. 31 small forward in the country and the No. 1 prospect in the state of Alabama. Mayfield took an official visit to Tennessee in June and has an official planned for Florida State in August.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first of two live evaluation periods for college basketball coaches is taking place this weekend, with Rick…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,398,400,401,4504,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-6729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-basketball","11":"tag-ncaabasketball","12":"tag-regwall","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}