Zakai Zeigler is ready to return for Tennessee basketball after missing a game because of a right knee injury. The Vols guard vowed Sunday that he would play when UT hosts Missouri on Wednesday.

Rick Barnes knows the look. It’s the look Zakai Zeigler gets when he’s the player the Tennessee basketball coach expects him to be — even moreso, when Zeigler is the player he expects to be.

In Tennessee's 81-76 comeback win over Vanderbilt on Saturday afternoon inside the Food City Center, senior point guard Zakai Zeigler became angry for the Volunteers, and his coach loved it.

Senior guard Zakai Zeigler was 0-of-2 from the floor with zero points and the Volunteers appeared to be quickly heading to just their sixth loss on the season. And then something happened at halftime.

Saul Young/News Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Zakai Zeigler and Igor Milicic returned to Tennessee’s lineup to each score 21 points in the No. 4 Volunteers’ 85-81 victory over No. 15 ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Zakai Zeigler scored 22 points, all in the second half, and No. 5 Tennessee rallied from a 16-point first-half deficit to beat Vanderbilt Saturday, 81-76. Chaz ...