Even before Art Green arrived at Tennessee on Saturday for his first recruiting visit as a junior-college prospect, he thought there was a chance one trip to Knoxville might be enough to sell him on the Vols.

By the end of his approximately 24-hour stay there, he had made up his mind.

The Class of 2020 cornerback from Hutchinson (Kan.) Community College announced Monday afternoon that he has committed to Tennessee, choosing the Vols over scholarship offers from more than 20 other schools, including Georgia, Florida and more than a half-dozen other SEC programs.

The 6-foot-2, 200-pound Green revealed his decision in a post on his Twitter account, giving Tennessee its seventh known commitment for the 2020 class.

“Going into it, I’d been talking to them for a little minute now,” said Green, who’s expected to be one of the top junior-college defensive backs in the 2020 class, although he has yet to be rated by 247Sports and in the industry-generated 247Sports Composite.

“They’ve been talking to me the most, and everything that I was looking for in a school, all the boxes were checked. I mean, it just happened to be on the first visit. My family liked it. I liked it. The coaching staff was great. They can really put me in a great situation once I get there, getting around and making plays. But also, off the field, they can help me in a lot of ways, too. All of that’s very important.

“My family liked it, which is my biggest thing, and I’m ready. I didn’t want to waste no time.”

Green said he informed the Vols of his decision Sunday before he and his family returned home. He said he first told Derrick Ansley, the Vols’ first-year defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach, and Joe Osovet — their director of programming for football — and they "were all excited” when they heard the news.

Tennessee gave Green one of his first Power Five offers in late February and has made him a priority since then.

“While I was on the visit, I was talking to my dad and we were like, ‘We’re going to pray on it and talk to the family,’” said Green, who played at Parkway Central High School in Chesterfield, Mo., a St. Louis suburb. “And then, on the ride home, we talked to the family and they were all 100 percent with it, behind me. And I was like, ‘I’m good.’

“Out of everybody, Tennessee was the one who wanted me the most. I saw the opportunity, so I took it.”

Florida, Georgia, Texas A&M, Ole Miss, Kentucky and Oklahoma State all have extended offers to him within the past two weeks. But he said he didn’t feel the need to visit any other schools before making his decision.

“With me,” he said, “when I get a feeling, I kind of go with it.”

Green said he was sold on Tennessee for multiple reasons, starting with his chance to play for second-year Vols head coach Jeremy Pruitt, a former defensive backs coach, and Ansley, who was the defensive backs coach for the NFL’s Oakland Raiders last season.

“I feel like I can learn a lot from those two and we can win a lot of games together,” Green said of Pruitt and Ansley. “I mean, with a coaching staff like that, with a lot of experience like they have, I feel like you can get anywhere you want to go.

“I like the environment (at Tennessee), too. It’s like a family-based environment. Everybody’s cool and ready to work. I like that a lot, and I feel like I’ll fit right in.”

He thinks he will benefit from playing in the SEC, too.

“I told myself, if I wanted to challenge myself as a football player, I feel like the SEC would be the best place to go because it’s the best conference,” Green said. “It’s like an NFL-ready league. If you’re going there, you’ve got to get right.”

Green signed with Arkansas State coming out of high school as a projected wide receiver before moving to cornerback last year at Hutchinson. That’s where he expects to play in the Vols’ secondary.

“They say, when you start out, you’re going to learn one (position),” said Green, who recorded six interceptions and 19 tackles last season despite appearing in only eight games. “But if you’re capable, you can learn a lot of them, just to be versatile.”

Green said he doesn’t expect to take any additional visits any time soon. He said he’s not likely to return to Tennessee until his team’s open date this season, when he hopes to take his official visit to Knoxville.

Despite his commitment to the Vols, though, he said he’s “not really” closing the door on other schools just yet. If he ends up exploring some of his other options, two of Tennessee’s SEC rivals are among the schools he’s interested in visiting.

“I want to visit Georgia, Florida for sure,” said Green, who plans to graduate in December and enroll at Tennessee in January. "Those are two that I really want to go to and see. (But) I didn’t really need to do that now.

“I might plan some other visits. I might not. I don’t really know. I haven’t thought about it. But I’m kind of focused on Tennessee, really.”