THE bronze medal The men’s basketball game was played on Saturday at Paris Olympics.
Serbia defeated Germany 93-83. Former Vol Uros Plavsic played for Serbia during the Summer Olympics.
He is the third Tennessee men’s basketball player to win an Olympic medal, joining Ernie Grunfeld and Alan Houston. Grunfeld won a gold medal in 1976 for the United States, while Houston won a gold medal in 2000 for Team USA.
Plavsic played at Tennessee from 2019-23 under the head coach Rick Barnes. He averaged 3.7 points, 0.5 assists and 2.8 rebounds per game while shooting 47 percent from the field.
Plavsic played high school basketball at Hamilton Heights Christian Academy in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He transferred from Arizona State to Tennessee, where he played from 2018-19.
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