It was a good night for Tennessee basketball — until it wasn’t. The Volunteers races out of the gates against a bad Georgia Southern team, doing exactly what they were supposed to do. The offense ran through Jonas Aidoo, and the seven-foot big man was dominant.
Aidoo paved the way for Tennessee to build a 49-21 advantage, but then things changed. The Volunteers seemingly slept through the second half as KenPom’s 326th ranked team won the half 35-25. Tennessee’s offense went completely dormant and the defensive effort simply wasn’t what it was in the first.
Of course, Rick Barnes wasn’t happy with that.