Tennessee coach Donnie Tyndall has a mostly new group of players to work with as he prepares to begin his first season leading the Vols basketball team.KNOXVILLE – If you thought Tennessee’s basketball team took some solace in how tough it played a top-15 team in the second half of the season-opening loss to Virginia Commonwealth last Friday, think again.
Some Volunteers had a different reaction to the 85-69 loss.
“It makes me a little mad more so than anything,” freshman forward Jabari McGhee said before practice earlier this week ahead of tonight’s home opener against Texas Southern. “It shows that we can compete, and we should have did it in the first half as well. It would have been a whole different game.”
At halftime at the U.S. Naval Academy’s Alumni Hall, the Vols trailed the Rams 48-30, and the numbers weren’t pretty.
Fourteen turnovers. Nine missed free throws. Only one made 3-pointer in seven attempts.