COLUMBUS, Ohio— Lamonté Turner had in the previous hour approached the outer margins on the spectrum of the NCAA tournament’s roles, from would-be goat—however inappropriately cast by a questionable whistle—to would-be hero, on the merits of a go-ahead bucket that pried open a late lead that was soon erased. Now the junior Tennessee guard sat in the cramped quarters of his locker room, playing the role of host to a semicircular horde of gathered reporters, the braces on his teeth gleaming in the TV cameras’ light, and was asked to describe how that range of emotions had settled into whatever he was feeling now.
No. 2 Tennessee Tightens Up vs. No. 10 Iowa to Avoid Historic Collapse
