KNOXVILLE — Zero points doesn’t always equal zero impact in a basketball game.
Josh Bone’s performance on Tuesday night proves exactly that.
The Tennessee reserve guard locked down Vanderbilt’s star John Jenkins while not scoring in the Volunteers’ 60-51 comeback road win.
“You guys are probably going to ask as far as what we did on Jenkins,” UT coach Bruce Pearl said, “but I thought Josh Bone did a tremendous job and I don’t know how many times John scored on Josh. It just wasn’t often.”
Jenkins entered the game as the Southeastern Conference’s scoring leader at 19.9 points per game. The sophomore from Hendersonville, Tenn., who hadn’t scored less than 18 points in his last 13 games, made just four of his 13 shots and finished with 11 points and five turnovers.