Postgame Thread: Tennessee 68, Alabama 59

Alabama’s tenure as the top ranked team in the country might be short lived, as the Tide dropped one in Knoxville.

Tennessee was able to control the tempo in the first half and force the Tide to play against their outstanding half court defense, and the result was a dozen Alabama turnovers as they put only 29 points on the board. The good news was that the Vols also had a rough go of it on the offensive end, resulting in a tie going into the break.

Tennessee came out with a bit of a spurt to get out to a five point lead early in the second half but the Tide worked back to even. With about ten minutes to play the officials seemed to almost will a bit of separation for Tennessee, swallowing the…