{"id":113848,"date":"2026-01-07T07:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T07:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/113848\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T07:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T07:07:11","slug":"tramon-mark-scores-20-but-texas-cant-keep-up-with-tennessees-dominant-paint-presence-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/113848\/","title":{"rendered":"Tramon Mark scores 20, but Texas can\u2019t keep up with Tennessee\u2019s dominant paint presence"},"content":{"rendered":"

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) \u2014 Ja\u2019Kobi Gillespie scored 34 points to lead No. 21 Tennessee to an 85-71 victory over Texas<\/a> on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

J.P. Estrella scored 11 and DeWayne Brown II and Jaylen Carey each added 10 for the Volunteers (11-4, 1-1 in Southeastern Conference).<\/p>\n

The Longhorns (9-6, 0-2) were led by Tramon Mark with 20, Camden Heide scored 16 and Simeon Wilcher added 10.<\/p>\n

Tennessee dominated the paint, outscoring Texas 44-18 down low.<\/p>\n

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The Vols struggled at the free-throw line (12 of 23) in their loss to Arkansas<\/a> on Saturday, but against the Longhorns, they hit 21 of 29.<\/p>\n

The Longhorns had no answer for Gillespie in the first half. He hit 8 of 10 shots from the field, including 3 of 4 3-pointers, and had 22 points as Tennessee led, 48-33 at halftime.<\/p>\n

This game was the 1,274th game of Rick Barnes\u2019 career as a head coach, moving him past Bob Knight for sole possession of 10th place on the career list.<\/p>\n

Barnes spent 17 of his 39 seasons, from 1998 to 2015, as the head coach at Texas.<\/p>\n

Three of Barnes\u2019 Tennessee assistants \u2014 Gregg Polinsky, Bryan Lentz and Steve McClain \u2014 were on his staff in Austin.<\/p>\n

When Tennessee lost its SEC opener to Arkansas, the Vols dropped to No. 21 in The Associated Press poll.<\/a> It extended their streak of being listed in the poll to 89, which is second to Houston\u2019s (115). However, it ended their streak of being in the Top 20 at 66.<\/p>\n

Texas came into the game averaging 88.6 points, the Longhorns\u2019 best since they averaged 92.9 in 1994-95.<\/p>\n

UP NEXT<\/p>\n

Texas: The Longhorns will stay on the road Saturday when they visit Alabama.<\/p>\n

Tennessee: The Vols will play at Florida on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Find more Texas coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) \u2014 Ja\u2019Kobi Gillespie scored 34 points to lead No. 21 Tennessee to an 85-71 victory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1638,3688,154,27,29,537,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-113848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-brief","9":"tag-colleges","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-texas-headlines","13":"tag-texas-longhorns","14":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}