Arizona (10-1) found a way past the No. 6 Vols despite all of its normal tricks not working.
Bruce Pascoe By the time Tennessee big man Uros Plavsic introduced himself to the rowdy McKale Center crowd by repeatedly bumping his chest into Oumar Ballo, it was already on.
People are also reading… Offensively, Arizona shot only 42.4% and hit only 5 of 24 3-pointers, getting zero points from its four reserve players. Moreover, point guard Kerr Kriisa was still sputtering offensively after an illness sent him out early in a game four days earlier against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.
Combined with what is becoming an almost typical output of 18 points and eight rebounds from center Oumar Ballo, and the Wildcats eventually outdid the Volunteers inside. 2. They wore out the lineNot only did Ballo and Tubelis combine for 13 trips to the free-throw line, each missing only one, but Larsson went nine times and hit every shot, while Kriisa hit all three he took.
“Pelle — the word I use a lot is force,” Lloyd said. “He plays with force. When they're that aggressive on the perimeter, you have to go at them and if you go at them and there’s two hands on you, or it's a hand check, or you get hip checked, those are fouls. Fortunately they called them.”“You know what? I have a lot of respect for these three officials,” Barnes said. “But not real happy. Because I didn’t see it that way, although I don’t want to take anything away from Arizona.
3. It was their turnArizona’s two-year series with Tennessee was one of those increasingly rare big-time home-and-home series in which two equal teams often wind up defending their home courts.
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