Tennessee Triumphs Over UCLA in Defensive Basketball Duel

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00:00Tennessee and UCLA in a game between two very similar styles both very sound

00:05defensively both not exactly the fastest teams you will ever play and Tennessee

00:10wins that slugfest 67-58 staying under a number of 131 and a half and the

00:16Volunteers do cover as a pregame five and a half point favorite winning by 9

00:21Tennessee onto the sweet 16 once again under Rick Barnes yeah they would love

00:27the fact that they play a team like UCLA on each and every night because you

00:30can say okay we'll go match you up for defense for defense we just need to make

00:33a couple shots and we'll beat you and quite frankly Tennessee was really good

00:36from the three-point line 11 of 22 which is 50% from the field and

00:40maximizing their free throws making 14 of 16 attempts but Tennessee understands

00:46this it is a shot making game they need to continue to make those shots

00:49something that st. John's wasn't able to do and play great defense Tennessee was

00:53able to do against UCLA I'm interested to see how they do in their next game

00:57here but no shame in UCLA's game getting knocked out by Tennessee a quality

01:00opponent from the SEC they were just a better team on that night and we got

01:04exactly what we thought would happen a defensive effort and Tennessee came out

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