The first national championship won by the Lady Vols in basketball was the NCAA championship in 1987 under Coach Pat Summitt. This was also the first NCAA national championship won by the Lady Vols.

In 1844 Professor Albert Lea led a successful move to have the trustees prescribe uniforms for both students and faculty of the university and to have the institution operate in a military fashion. Military instruction really began when John McMillan Brooks, a student, organized a military company of 30 or 40 students in the fall … Continued

On February 25, 2008, the two major national polls ranked the UT Basketball Team number 1, following its victory over number 1 ranked University of Memphis on February 23. The Vols were ranked number 2 in the preceding polls. They played Vanderbilt at Vanderbilt the following Tuesday (February 26) and lost by 3 points.

For the fund year ending June 30, 1976, a total of 20,629 alumni and other friends contributed $1,077,211 to the university through the Annual Giving Program.

The 1919–20 men’s basketball team was the first intercollegiate team invited to a national tournament when it participated in the National A.A.N. Basket Ball Tournament held in Atlanta in 1920.

Thompson-Boling Arena was the site of the first sanctioned professional MMA fight in Tennessee in February 2009. Xtreme Fighting Championships put on the event and featured undefeated heavyweights Chad Corvin and Scott Barrett. A light heavyweight match pitting former UT linebacker Ovince St. Preux against CT Turner preceded the main event.

In 1979 TRZ sports televised the Lady Vols’ basketball game from Knoxville.

On April 3, 2003, the UT Wind Ensemble performed at Carnegie Hall as a featured attraction of the New York Wind Band Festival. Director of Bands Dr. Gary Sousa directed the ensemble.

The Lady Vols participated in the first NCAA Women’s Final Four in the Old Dominion Fieldhouse in Norfolk, Virginia. Louisiana Tech beat UT 69-46 in the semifinal. UT hosted the NCAA Final Four in 1990. Although Tennessee did not make it to the final four in 1990, new NCAA attendance records were set.

The College of Business was named the James H. Haslam II College of Business by the UT Board of Trustees at its meeting on October 3, 2014. The designation was made following a gift of $50 million to the college from the Pilot Flying J founder and his family.