The No. 1 workforce and remaining unbeaten squad in faculty basketball has fallen.
Prime-ranked Tennessee misplaced to No. 8 Florida in blowout vogue, 73-43 on Tuesday in Gainesville. The Vols got here into the sport 14-0 driving the momentum of a giant win over No. 23 Arkansas on Saturday.
It was an uncharacteristically poor taking pictures night time from Tennessee because the Vols shot 21.4 % from the sphere and a dreadful 13.8 % from deep. Tennessee additionally made simply 62.5 % of its free throws.
The offensive struggles had been most noticeable for star guard Chaz Lanier, who got here into the sport placing up 20.3 factors per recreation. The North Florida switch had simply 10 factors on 3-of-16 from the sphere and 1-of-9 from deep.
After the embarrassing loss, followers known as out the Vols for failing to indicate up in Gainesville.
The excellent news for Tennessee is that it’s going to get a reasonably manageable three-game stretch to neglect about Tuesday night time’s dud. The Vols will face Texas, Georgia and Vanderbilt earlier than a gauntlet on the finish of January once they’ll play Mississippi State, Auburn, Kentucky and Florida once more.
Florida confronted its first lack of the season on Saturday towards Kentucky, however the Gators rapidly bounced again with arguably the perfect win in all of faculty basketball this season. They’re going to look to maintain their momentum going once they face Arkansas on Saturday.
