Uk Tennessee Basketball

The official mens basketball page for the university of tennessee volunteers. Tennessee volunteers basketball 4 star power forward picks up offer from vols nathanael rutherford is the managing editor and social media manager for rocky top insider. 17 auburn which is tied for second with lsu.

The two teams first played in 1910.

Uk tennessee basketball. Kentucky can recover saturday at florida but this loss hurt its chances of cracking the top five. Kentucky entered tuesdays game against tennessee with a record of 129 0 when leading by double digits at halftime under john calipari. In contrast to the football series kentucky has generally dominated the basketball rivalry. Kentucky coach john calipari did not mince words after the host wildcats were on the wrong end of a 17 point second half collapse in a 81 73 loss to tennessee on tuesday.

By adam haste a sea. The kentucky michigan college basketball matchup scheduled for dec. Uk included in list of the craziest comebacks in college basketball history. Weve been doing it all year giving up leads said freshman guard tyrese maxey who led uk with 21 points on 8 of 15 shooting.

Fulkerson scores 27 tennessee stuns no. 6 in london has been postponed until 2022 because of the coronavirus pandemic as part of a restructuring of their three game series. So when uk was up 11 on the unranked vols after 20 minutes. Could kp leave uk for the nba.

Against tennessee kentucky was never able to stop the bleeding. 6 kentucky 81 73 john fulkerson scored a career high 27 points and yves pons made several key jumpers down the stretch as tennessee rallied from a 17 point. For the first couple decades the series was often back and forth and the rivalry became particularly heated in the 1930s and 1940s when the volunteers were coached by john mauer. Kentucky aims to complete a season sweep on saturday at florida which looks to regroup from a loss to the volunteers.

Up next tennessee seeks a season split at home saturday against no.