In spite of horrible rebounding and free throw shooting, AU escapes win a W vs. Tennessee
Bruce Pearl wanted this one. You could tell in his pre-game interviews all week that he wanted to get a victory over his old team badly. Thanks to great 3 point shooting by Auburn and lousy 3 point shooting by Tennessee, he got his win, an 83-77 victory.
When I say lousy for Tennessee, I mean lousy. Without looking at the stat sheet, I believe UT was 3-27 from behind the arc. That is hard to do. Many of the missed 3's were uncontested.