On how pleased he was with the finish of the second half:
“I like to think that we can do that because we have enough experience and enough guys that have been in some high-level games in the last couple years. Certainly Yves and Fulky have been there a lot. Josiah has played a lot of minutes and Santi got a lot coming down the stretch. The real key is as we continue to figure this rotation out, every guy is going to benefit by playing 26, 27, 28 minutes or somewhere in there, and if you do that, now you expect to finish strong and you expect to have the energy at the end of the game. When you’re playing 34 to 36 minutes it’s hard at the end of the game, but the fact is if we can keep these minutes where we need to keep them, I would expect us to be a strong team on both ends physically to where we are able to defend, rebound, run and hope we can break it loose during those runs you mentioned because that was all created by defense and I think we brought the energy there. We’re going to have to be able to do it and we have a chance to be an outstanding defensive team if we can just manage our minutes the right way.”
Rick Barnes recaps Tennessee’s win against Cincinnati
Tennessee defeated Cincinnati, 65-56.