Where Tennessee basketball is ranked in the updated Associated Press Top 25
Tennessee dropped two spots in Monday’s updated Top 25, coming in at No. 8, following the loss at Arizona. The Vols lost 75-70 Saturday night inside a soldout McKale Memorial Center in Tucson in their first true road game of the season.
Tennessee (9-2) is back home to host Austin Peay (6-6) on Wednesday at Thompson-Boling Arena. The game is scheduled for a 5 p.m. Eastern Time start. It’s not televised but can be seen as a live stream through ESPN+ or SEC Network+.
The Vols started the season at No. 11 in the preseason AP Top 25, dropped to No. 22 following the 78-66 loss to Colorado on November 13 at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, then climbed to No. 13, then No. 7 and No. 6 over the last three weeks.
Vols drop two spots in updated AP Top 25 after loss at Arizona
Tennessee moved up one spot last week, from No. 7 to No. 6, after a home win over Eastern Kentucky and a neutral-site win over Maryland at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Sophomore point guard Zakai Zeigler scored a career-high 21 points in the loss at Arizona, going 8-for-11 from the field and 3-for-6 from the 3-point line. He grabbed six rebounds and had a steal in 29 minutes off the bench.
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Senior forward Olivier Nkamhoua scored 16 points and had five rebounds to go with four assists in 29 minutes. Santiago Vescovi scored nine points, with five assists and two rebounds.
Five-star freshman wing Julian Phillips had just two points, going 0-for-5 from the field.
Up Next: Tennessee vs. Austin Peay, Wednesday, 6 p.m. ET, SEC Network+
Tennessee did not shoot a free throw in the first half and finished the game 8-for-10 at the foul line. The Vols were called for 24 fouls to Arizona’s 15 while the Wildcats went 24-for-27 at the foul line.
The Tennessee lead in the first half was as large as seven and the deficit in the second half was as much as 10, before the Vols rallied back within one point. Arizona used a 6-0 run for the go-ahead points with just under three minutes left in the second half.
“Give Arizona credit,” Tennessee coach Rick Barnes said after the loss. “It was a hard-fought game which you knew it would be. When you go on the road and you guys know that. Coming down the stretch in a possession game like that you can not, can’t turn it over the way we did and you can’t have the defensive breakdowns. That’s simply sometimes just fouling and putting guys on the free throw line.”
