Louisiana State Tigers vs Tennessee Volunteers Box Score on Jan 22, 2022

Santiago Vescovi scored 16 points and Uros Plavsic added 12 as No. 24 Tennessee defeated No. 13 LSU 64-50 on Saturday in Knoxville, Tenn.

Vescovi made 5 of 11 3-pointers, which were his only field-goal attempts, and the Volunteers (13-5, 4-3 SEC) finished 10 of 28 on 3-pointers.

Tari Eason scored 16 before fouling out with four minutes remaining, Brandon Murray added 15 points and Eric Gaines scored 10 to lead the Tigers (15-4, 3-4), who lost their third straight game and had their lowest-scoring output of the season.

LSU, which defeated Tennessee 79-67 on Jan. 8 in Baton Rouge, La., shot 38.9 percent from the floor, including 21.1 percent on 3-pointers.

Gaines' jumper started the second-half scoring and pulled the Tigers within 29-26 before they went cold.

Josiah-Jordan James answered with a 3-pointer to start an 8-0 run for the Volunteers as LSU went scoreless for 5 1/2 minutes.

Eason's jumper ended LSU's drought, but Vescovi's 3-pointer and Kennedy Chandler's layup increased the Volunteers' lead to 42-28.

The Tigers trimmed the deficit to 10 before John Fulkerson scored four straight points to help Tennessee take a 47-32 lead with nine minutes remaining.

LSU chipped away and Eason's three-point play cut the deficit to 51-45 with five minutes remaining, but the Volunteers scored the next 13 points.

Tennessee made four 3-pointers as it opened a 14-0 lead. LSU missed its first seven shots and had three turnovers before Darius Days' jumper ended the scoring drought with 13:41 left in the first half.

Efton Reid added a tip-in for the Tigers before Justin Powell's 3-pointer gave the Volunteers a 17-4 lead.

Eason's 3-pointer started an 8-0 run that pulled LSU within five points.

Vescovi's 3-pointer ended a Tennessee scoring drought of 3 1/2 minutes and helped the Volunteers take a 25-17 lead.

Tennessee went scoreless for more than five minutes, and the Tigers scored seven straight to get within one point.

Plavsic's dunk ended the Volunteers' drought and Brandon Huntley-Hatfield beat the buzzer with a tip-in that gave Tennessee a 29-24 halftime lead.

--Field Level Media