The contest was part of the SEC/Big 12 Challenge.
Following Tennessee’s win, Vols’ head coach Rick Barnes met with media and discussed his team’s performance.
Below is a transcript provided by the University of Tennessee of Barnes discussing the Vols’ victory.
On not allowing any second chance points:
“We are proud, the only thing that bothers me on that stat sheet is the turnovers. They had 19 points off turnovers and some of it is because they switched aggressively and we weren’t being as aggressive as we needed to be driving the ball because we knew we were going to have to do that. But the fact that we could take those other buckets away from them was good for us. Overall defensively, we were really solid. I would be shocked if everyone wasn’t on the positive on the defensive end.”
On Keon Johnson and Jaden Springer starting tonight for the first time and Josiah Jordan-James coming off the bench:
“I thought it played out well. A couple of weeks back we thought we were moving in that direction because when Jaden got hurt it slowed him down. This week in practice they got practice together but I thought Josiah, Olivier Nkamhoua and Victor Bailey all played well off the bench. I would say it worked and they combined for 21 points. I’m not sure about how many turnovers they had combined, maybe five or six but that’s what they have to cut down on.”
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