Vols hold off Tennessee State

The University of Tennessee men’s basketball team tallied an 83-78 win Friday night against Tennessee State at Food City Center.

No. 11/9 Tennessee (3-0) held the Tigers to 32.1 percent shooting, while junior guard Terrence Hill Jr., paced the team with 19 points.

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The Volunteers missed six of their first eight shots and Tennessee State (1-3) claimed an 11-5 lead at the 13:09 mark. However, senior guard Dai Dai Ames rattled off a personal 8-0 run in just 1:17 seconds to put Tennessee on top by two exactly 100 seconds later. Ames had 11 of the team’s 13 points at that time.

Tennessee State went back up by five, but the Volunteers responded to take a lead they would not relinquish. A pair of 7-0 runs—the first was exclusively by Hill and took 47 seconds, while the second was 55 ticks—sandwiched around two free throws by the visitors, who went 5:33 without a field goal and 2:51 without a point, made it 33-25 with 4:19 left in the stanza.

The margin remained eight in the closing seconds of the half, but Tennessee State senior forward Aaron Bradshaw hit a buzzer-beating 3-pointer to send the teams into the locker room with a 42-37 tally. The Volunteers held the Tigers to 10-of-36 (27.8 percent) shooting, but they had 11 offensive rebounds and shot 12-of-12 at the stripe.

Tennessee scored the initial five points after the break to take its first double-digit lead, 47-37, just 47 seconds into the action. The Tigers twice pulled within eight, but the second time the Volunteers countered with six straight points in 78 seconds to earn a 57-43 cushion with 12:56 to play.After shooting 14-of-60 through 32-plus minutes, Tennessee State made seven field goals in a row to claw its deficit down to seven, 73-66, with 3:38 left.

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The Tigers did not get any closer until just 32 seconds remained on the clock, but the Volunteers held strong for the victory.In addition to his team-leading point total, Hill topped the Volunteers with five assists, as well as shot 4-of-8…

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