Last season Chris Lofton helped lead the University of Tennessee men's basketball team to its first number one school ranking in the school's history and its best record of all time. This season he became the schools and the South Eastern Conference's leader in 3-point field goals with 431. He also averaged 15.5 points per game. He achieved all of this, according to a report, that he had cancer treatment for testicular cancer in the offseason before his senior season. He was randomly selected during the 2007 NCAA tournament for a drug test where it showed high levels of hCG, a hormone that serves as an indicator for steroid use, pregnancy in women, or cancer. For him to achieve this level of play, while dealing with radiation in the offseason, is just remarkable to me. What makes it that more amazing, is in the age of excuses, he did not use this as one. He never complained and never went the route of blaming his condition for his play, and this is the reason his legend will continue to grow long after he leaves the campus. You can continue reading it about it here. Chris Lofton will remembered for always working his hardest, torching the competition, and always being there when the game was on the line. He has now put him self up there with other Tennessee Alumni such as Allen Houston, Ernie Grunfeld, and Bernard King. He is a Vol for life.
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