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Dreadful second half dooms Vols in miserable loss at LSU

Tennessee's Grant Williams drives toward the basket during last week's loss to Vanderbilt in Knoxville. The Vols lost 92-82 at LSU on Wednesday, their third straight defeat and fifth in six games.
Tennessee's Grant Williams drives toward the basket during last week's loss to Vanderbilt in Knoxville. The Vols lost 92-82 at LSU on Wednesday, their third straight defeat and fifth in six games. Tennessee's Grant Williams drives toward the basket during last week's loss to Vanderbilt in Knoxville. The Vols lost 92-82 at LSU on Wednesday, their third straight defeat and fifth in six games.

By Patrick Brown 4 min read

A dreadful stretch of basketball paved the way for Tennessee’s most dubious defeat of the season.

The Volunteers’ late-season tailspin now includes a miserable loss to the Southeastern Conference’s last-place team.

LSU punished Tennessee for missing 12 straight shots and going almost 10 minutes between field goals by going on a 20-4 run as the Tigers snapped a program-record 15-game losing streak with a 92-82 win Wednesday night in Baton Rouge, La.

“This time of year, we keep talking about effort and intensity,” Tennessee coach Rick Barnes told the Vol Network after the game. “We’re not tired. We’ve cut our practices back. We’re acting like a team, to me, that’s sort of kind of afraid to win, in the fact of knowing how hard you’ve got to play every single possession.”

Tennessee (15-15, 7-10) lost for the fifth time in six games and again looked like a team out of gas while allowing LSU (10-19, 2-15) to record a season high in points and its first win since Jan. 4 at Missouri.