The winning streak stopped at one game. In their third straight outing without Josiah-Jordan James, Tennessee basketball fell at home to the No. 15 ranked Kentucky Wildcats 77-64 in a game that was much closer through the middle of the second half.
Kentucky never trailed and went into halftime up 37-30. They then built a 10-point lead in the second half, but the Vols cut it to four in the final 10 minutes and were only down 66-61 with just over two minutes to go. But they couldn’t complete the comeback, as UK pulled away in the end.