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University of Tennessee
14-12, 6-8SEC
Ole Miss
19-8, 10-4SEC
Ole Miss Outlasts Vols, 59-57
February 21, 2015 | Men's Basketball
Feb. 21, 2015
Final Stats | Notes
OXFORD, Miss. -- Ole Miss held on for a 59-57 win over Tennessee as Josh Richardson's jumper as time expired rimmed out.
Ole Miss (19-8, 10-4 SEC) won for the eighth time in nine games while the Vols dropped their third game in a row and stand at 14-12 overall and 6-8 in the league.
Junior Armani Moore led Tennessee with 15 points and nine rebounds. Richardson tallied 13 points while Kevin Punter added 12, making four 3-pointers.
Rebel Stefan Moody was the game's top scorer with 22 points as he knocked down 6-of-11 from 3-point range. Jarvis Summers tallied 13 for Ole Miss.
The game saw 20 combined 3-pointers as the Vols were 9-of-23 from beyond the arc while Ole Miss was 11-of-31. The Vols outrebounded the Rebels, 37-28.
In a game that was tied four times in the final seven minutes, Moody's pair of free throws with 1:54 left put Ole Miss up for good at 58-57. Summers added another foul shot with 27.5 left to push the Rebels lead to two at 59-57.
Richardson had a chance to give the Vols the lead and tie the game in the final 10 seconds. First his 3-point attempt with eight seconds left bounced off. Robert Hubbs III grabbed the offensive rebound giving Tennessee a final chance with 4.8 seconds remaining.
Richardson had a chance to send the game to overtime, but his short jumper rimmed in and out and the Rebels walked off the court winners.
The Vols didn't score for the final 3:07 of the game and didn't make a field goal for the last 4:12.
Up three at the half, the Vols extended their lead to eight points on a 3-pointer by Punter with four minutes elapsed in the second half, putting UT ahead 38-30.
The game turned into a 3-point duel midway through the second half as the teams combined to make six consecutive triples. Moody's fourth 3-pointer of the game, brought Ole Miss within five at 44-39.
The Rebels used a 16-3 spurt keyed by Moody to re-take the lead at 52-47 with eight minutes left in the game. Moody knocked down two treys in the run. Tennessee tied the game at 52 on a 3-pointer by Richardson and an alley-oop from Richardson to Willie Carmichael for the dunk with less than seven minutes to go.
The game was tied at 52, 54, 56 and 57.
The Vols came on late in the first half to take a 30-27 lead into intermission. After miss 11 consecutive field goal attempts and having just seven points for the game's first 12-plus minutes, the Vols scored 23 points in the final 7:37 of the half.
Moore keyed a spurt when the Vols made five of six shots on the heels of that 0-of-11 drought. Moore's three layups put Tennessee ahead 20-18 with five minutes left in the half.
Devon Baulkman's 3-pointer in the final minute of the first half gave the Vols their 3-point edge at halftime.
Tennessee leads the all-time series 70-42, including 25-24 in Oxford.
The Vols are back in action on Thursday as Vanderbilt comes to Thompson-Boling Arena for a 7 p.m. ET tip-off. The game airs on ESPN2 and can be heard on the Vol Network.
