Cuonzo Martin isn’t the only new addition to the Tennessee men’s basketball program.
    
The Volunteers feature eight new players — six freshmen and two transfers.
    
They account for more than half of the roster for a team that has many questions.
    
Martin hasn’t seen his freshmen for too long, but still has confidence they are ready for the challenge of college basketball.
    
“I think our freshmen are tough enough to play at this level,” Martin said. “Now it’s just a matter of going through the fire. I thought when I got to college that I was tough enough, but skill-wise, I wasn’t ready. I’ve dealt with JaJuan Johnson and Robbie Hummel. Those guys played as freshmen out of the gate (at Purdue) and I think they finished 15-3 in the Big Ten as freshmen. So if you have it in you, you can get it done.”
    
The two transfers are Dwight Miller and Ryan Kilmartin. Although he came last year, Rob Murphy will be able to play after sitting out last year after transferring from Lipscomb University.
    
Miller is a junior college transfer from Midland (Texas) College. The 6-foot-8, 240-pound redshirt junior forward originally played at Pittsburgh. Although he saw brief time in his only non-redshirt season there, he played behind eventual NBA players Sam Young and DeJuan Blair.
    
Now, with a refueled hunger for competition, Miller is back at a big-time program ready to prove he belongs.
    
“I don’t think I have ever been this excited in my life,” Miller said. “This is an opportunity to prove a lot of people wrong, an opportunity to get back up to Division I basketball, and an opportunity to show people what I can do and what my team can do. And to prove to people that rankings, and that other stuff, don’t matter. We’re just over here having fun, loving the game.”
    
Kilmartin, a 6-foot-5 guard, was redshirted at Appalachian State his first year, then played one game in his first season before contracting mononucleosis and sitting out for the year. He’s walking on at Tennessee.
    
Josh Richardson of Edmond, Okla., comes in as Tennessee’s top-rated recruit. The 6-foot-6 shooting guard was rated a three-star prospect by both Rivals and ESPN.com.
    
Five of the six freshmen recruits are guards, including Quinton Chievous and Wes Washpun.
    
Yemi Makanjuola, Tennessee’s second Nigerian player in program history, measures in at 6-foot-9, 244 pounds to play as the Vols’ only listed center.
    
“It’s been good. Everything has been coming together better now lately,” Richardson said of the transition process this summer while at the Pilot Rocky Top League. “I mean, every freshman, we were all kind of nervous. … But we’re all adjusting real good.”
    
Galen Campbell and Brandon Lopez are the two feature walk-on guards from Knoxville.
    
Campbell (6-foot-3) led Fulton High School to the Class AA state quarterfinals his senior year. Despite only playing two seasons for the Falcons after transferring from Bearden, Campbell was the quickest player to reach 1,000 career points in school history.
    
Lopez was named All-State at Austin-East while averaging 25.6 points, 8.2 rebounds and 6.8 assists per game. The 6-foot-1 guard earned a 3.9 GPA in high school and also had a 1,000-point career.