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Galen Campbell: "A Dream Come True"

January 11, 2015 | Men's Basketball

Jan. 11, 2015

Before a routine team film session Friday, Jan. 9, Tennessee basketball coach Donnie Tyndall called walk-on guard Galen Campbell to the front of the room and made a surprise announcement.

Both Campbell and his mother, Beverly, describe what followed as "a dream come true."

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