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Last night, Tennessee lost to Vanderbilt, 72-69. It was the fourth consecutive time a #1 team entered Vanderbilt’s Memorial Gym only to lose. Vanderbilt is ranked fourteenth nationally. It was the first time both Tennessee played Vanderbilt in Nashville with both ranked since 1968. Vandy won then too.

The game could have gone bad early as UT was down 14 in the first half but battled back to make a game out of it. I thought UT played fairly well after such an emotional game on Saturday night.

Vanderbilt’s Shon Foster, an Usher clone, was phenomenal, scoring 32 points to lead Vanderbilt.

Tennessee’s next game is Sunday against Kentucky, who amazingly after losing to Gardner-Webb and San Diego early, controls its own destiny in the SEC East.

When the polls come out Monday, barring a miracle, UT will no longer be #1. It was nice while it lasted...