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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. ----- The Georgia men’s basketball team led by five at the half but couldn’t preserve the lead as the Bulldogs fell by a score of 69-60 to No. 20 Tennessee on the road Wednesday night at Thompson-Boling Arena. Trey Thompkins turned in his seventh double-double of the season and second in a row as he poured in a game-high 25 points and added 10 rebounds to his line. But behind Thompkins, Georgia’s next leading-scorer was Ricky McPhee who tallied nine points on a trio of three-pointers while Travis Leslie was held in check with just four. For the Volunteers, Wayne Chism had 16 points and 11 boards while three other players reached double figures in J.P. Prince (15), Bobby Maze (13), and Scotty Hopson (10). The Bulldogs had been looking for their second win of the season over the Volunteers after capturing the Jan. 23 contest 78-63 in Athens. That game snapped a 10-game losing streak to the Vols, while tonight’s game was the 142nd all-time meeting between the SEC rivals with the scale now tipped 90-52 in favor of UT. Georgia has now gone winless in Knoxville since Feb. 21, 2001. Georgia is now 11-13 on the season and 3-8 in league play, while Tennessee jumps to 19-6 (7-4) with the win. “Our defense really failed us in the second half – we just could not get a stop,” said head coach Mark Fox. “When you put yourself in that position, it’s hard to stop the bleeding and we couldn’t manage to get a stop consistently in our zone, two different zones, or in our man. That right there is the difference in the ballgame.” “I don’t think, first of all, we played hard enough defensively. We didn’t run the floor hard enough in transition and left the goal open for guys to attack one-on-one, and we didn’t guard the penetration well and didn’t help. We just weren’t very good on that end in the second half and have not quite learned how to value that end of the floor away from home and tonight it cost us dearly.” The visiting Bulldogs protected a 29-24 lead at the half, and had led by as many as eight in the opening frame after a jumper from Chris Barnes made it 25-17 with 5:20 to go. A Hopson jumper with 1:01 left brought Tennessee back to within three, at 27-24, but Thompkins sank two late free throws to give the Bulldogs the five-point edge heading into the intermission. Thompkins already had 12 through the first 20 minutes to lead all scorers. The teams traded buckets at the outset of the second half, before Prince knotted it at 37 with a dunk off an alley-oop look from Maze at the 16:18 mark and UT had the next two scores to take a four-point lead. After Thompkins hit a jumper to give the lead back to Georgia with 8:55 on the clock, the Volunteers erupted for a 10-0 run that was capped by a lay-up for Hopson to put Tennessee up by its largest margin of nine, 59-50, with 6:07 to go. The Bulldogs would twice trim it to a five-point lead, but could get no closer as the Volunteers prevailed with the nine-point victory. Georgia made only two trips to the free throw line in the second half. The Bulldogs return home to Stegeman Coliseum to host Alabama in a 4 p.m. match-up this Saturday, Feb. 20 on the SEC Network. The Bulldogs are 3-1 in their last four home contests.
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