KNOXVILLE — Again, Tennessee came up on the short end of a close basketball game.
Again, the Volunteers could point to key moments that cost them a possible win long before a last-second shot cruelly sealed their doom.
In dropping a third consecutive game, Tennessee let an eight-point second-half lead go to waste and lost 59-57 at Ole Miss on Saturday night when Josh Richardson’s midrange jump shot rattled out at the buzzer.
“That was a very good team we played tonight,” forward Armani Moore told the Vol Network radio broadcast after Tennessee dropped to 1-5 in February.
“I think we came out and did some good things, but at the end, I feel like we’ve got to really buckle down on some things. There was some key plays, some key box-outs that we didn’t get, and it ended up causing us to lose the game.”