If you watched just the final 30 seconds of this game, you might have come away blaming Josiah-Jordan James for the loss. But without him, the Vols wouldn’t have even been in the game at the end.
The Vols battled back from a 17-point second-half deficit to tie the game with fewer than 30 seconds remaining, thanks mostly to a flurry of points from James and Zakai Zeigler. But a James’ foul that yielded one Texas made free throw and a James’ missed, open look from 3 sealed the Vols fate in the 52-51 loss.
Tennessee played fairly even with Texas through the game’s first half, as the teams traded leads and silly turnovers.