NASHVILLE – Every time the Tennessee band played “Rocky Top,” the overwhelming mass of Kentucky fans inside Bridgestone Arena drowned them out with choruses of “Go Big Blue.”
Nearly every time the Volunteers took the ball into the paint, the Wildcats swallowed and then spit them back out toward the perimeter.
Then Kentucky started making 3-pointers.
Then the tired Vols lost their cool.
Then the game got out of hand.