Well, that was ugly. Again.<\/p>\n
For the second year in a row, the Vols went down to Gainesville and got their doors blown off, this time falling to the defending national champion Gators 91-67.<\/p>\n
Tennessee was led in scoring by Nate Ament with 17 points. Ja\u2019Kobi Gillespie had 12, and Jaylen Carey added 12 off the bench.<\/p>\n
The story of the day was turnovers and physicality, and Tennessee failed on both of them substantially. Florida controlled the glass 41-30, and they had the edge in turnovers, with 10 to Tennessee\u2019s 18.<\/p>\n
And it was the first half where this game got away from Tennessee based on pure sloppiness and a hot streak by the Gators on the offensive end.<\/p>\n
With the game tied at 26 with under four minutes left in the first half, the Gators went on a 15-2 run to end the frame. Florida\u2019s Boogie Fland splashed home a three for the lead, and after two Tennessee turnovers, he added another three and a layup for a 36-28 lead. Then, after a Bishop Boswell turnover, Fland dished it to Urban Klavzar for a long three for a double-digit lead and added a layup for the final points of the half.<\/p>\n
Fland finished with 29 points on 9-13 shooting and did Tennessee in on that run. Boswell struggled in particular that half, accounting for five of Tennessee\u2019s 12 turnovers.<\/p>\n
The second half was more of the same. Florida jumped to a 48-30 lead, and after Tennessee showed a tad bit of fight to get to 50-35, Florida pushed the lead to 20 for the first time at 55-35 on another Klavzar three, and that would be that. Tennessee jockeyed around the 17-22 point range as far as deficit for most of the rest of the game, never going on any kind of run to threaten to get back into it.<\/p>\n
Up next is a home clash with Texas A&M on Tuesday at 7:00 pm ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well, that was ugly. Again. For the second year in a row, the Vols went down to Gainesville…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8294,28,30,29,57697],"class_list":["post-113755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-college-basketball","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-tennessee-volunteer-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}