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Vols Now Tied For First in SEC After Victory Over Mississippi State

March 01, 2018 20:11·
Every possible SEC regular-season title outcome for Auburn, Tennessee

Every possible SEC regular-season title outcome for Auburn, Tennessee

This also opens up the door for Tennessee team that's surging, winners of 10 of 12, to move in front of Auburn in the minds of the NCAA Selection Committee.

STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) - Tennessee stayed in the hunt for a Southeastern Conference title thanks to a stellar second-half performance on the road.

"It was a phenomenal win and a gut-check win for us against a hard-nosed and well-coached team in SC", said Mississippi State head coach Ben Howland.

Mississippi State is now 18-1 at home this season and that includes a 7-1 mark inside SEC play.

Rick Barnes is in his 3rd year at Tennessee and is 52-42. "They are hard to guard but we stayed with it and figured out the best way to guard their ball screens". We started switching ball screens to keep them out of the lane.

"We were much better today on the offensive end, overall, and we had a lot of execution inside and out". In the 2nd half, Tennessee went on a stretch where they hit 12 straight shots. Tennessee handed Mississippi State just their second loss at home on the year on their senior night.

Tennessee and Mississippi State are similar teams now in very different positions because Tennessee played a much better non-conference schedule. "Tennessee is just so physical and they played smart offensively". "I thought a lot of times we beat the first layer of their press, then we'd stop and they'd get us again". We just want to make this run for the (NCAA) Tournament so we had to get back in the game.

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Lamar Peters has become a leader for Mississippi State during its recent surge. It was a 25-17 lead, and we didn't handle the rest of the half very well. The Volunteers closed the half on a 15-6 run and led 40-34 at halftime.

Mississippi State responded with an 11-2 run to close the deficit to 26-22. "You have to defend him one-on-one because he's really good at passing out of double-teams". The Volunteers defense allowed just 20 points in the 2nd half while scoring 36 in the half. We were really attacking in transition to put the ball inside and doing little things we had truly gotten away from. Tennessee made 11 consecutive field-goal attempts during the second half and finished 56.3 percent from the field. TCU is at its best when going up-tempo and getting buckets in transition while Kansas State's forte is playing more of a slow, grind-out-the-shot-clock game.

The visiting Gamecocks jumped on Mississippi State early and held an 11-2 advantage in the game's opening six minutes.

SC finished with 21 turnovers and outrebounded Mississippi State 40-30. SEC Network will broadcast the game.

Mississippi State: The Bulldogs missed a big opportunity to boost their NCAA Tournament resume. The Tigers finish at home against SC on Saturday and will clinch at least a share of the SEC championship and the top seed in the conference tournament with a win. That gives Tennessee a chance to win at least a share of the regular-season championship if it beats Georgia this weekend at Thompson-Boling Arena.

Saturday's regular-season finales could have implications in the SEC coach of the year race, too.

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