Tennessee Claws Past San Diego St.
Posted on | March 19, 2010 |
Filed under: Tennessee, NCAA Tournament, NCAA Tournament - Midwest Region
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — They could be this NCAA tournament’s most dangerous team — the only team in the field that can say it beat both Kansas and Kentucky, both No. 1 seeds, this season. And after a gut-wrenching 62-59 first-round victory over San Diego State Thursday night, the Tennessee Volunteers are still alive.
It took everything Tennessee had to hold off the Mountain West champion Aztecs. Melvin Goins appeared to put the game away with a clutch 3-pointer in the final minute, but with 9.5 seconds left he fouled San Diego State’s D.J. Gay while Gay was shooting a 3-pointer. Gay’s shot missed (as nearly all the shots in this game did), but he hit all three free throws to cut the lead back down to one point.
Fouled on the inbound play, Wayne Chism made two free throws to push the lead back to three, and Kawhi Leonard’s game-tying attempt missed everything at the buzzer.
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