Tennessee athletics director Mike Hamilton says he does not know if Bruce Pearl will be the Volunteers' coach after this season ends. In an interview with WNML-AM in Knoxville that aired Wednesday, Hamilton said that he, the UT-Knoxville Chancellor Jimmy Cheek and school trustees will evaluate Pearl after the season ends. The ninth-seeded Vols play eighth-seeded Michigan on Friday in the NCAA tournament. "We don't know the answer today," Hamilton said when asked if Pearl would be coach next season. "We've done a lot of soul searching about the direction of our program, and we'll continue to do that, and we'll decide after we're out of the NCAA Tournament what direction it is that we're going to go next. "The jury is out with what's going to happen on that. He knows that, by the way," Hamilton said. "He knows that this is a tough situation that we're in and that we're going to weigh all the things he's done so positively for our community and for our basketball program, and that will be considered greatly as we do the evaluation process." Read more: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=6225206
