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No. 2 Tennessee catches fire in 2nd half to put away No. 7 UCLA

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LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Chaz Lanier scored a game-high 20 points and Zakai Zeigler added 15 points and six assists to lead second-seeded Tennessee past seventh-seeded UCLA 67-58 in a second-round Midwest Region game on Saturday night. With the support of a large and loud partisan crowd inside Rupp Arena -- just 171 miles north on I-75 from the Knoxville campus -- the Volunteers shot 54.5 percent in the second half, including 7 of 11 from beyond the arc to pull away from the Bruins. Tennessee finished the game shooting 11-for-22 from 3-point range while UCLA was just 7 of 23 (30.