University of Tennessee Athletics
Tennessee vs. Radford Postgame Notes
December 17, 2001 | Men's Basketball
Dec. 17, 2001
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Tennessee vs. Radford
Dec. 17, 2001 - Thompson-Boling Arena, Knoxville, Tenn.
* Tennessee falls/improves to 5-3 on the season ... Radford improves/falls to 4-8 ... Tonight's win was the Vols' 38th consecutive non-conference victory at Thompson-Boling Arena ... UT's last non-conference loss at home was a 73-62 setback to Tennessee Tech Dec. 4, 1996 ... Overall, UT has a 57-7 mark at home since the 1997-98 season ... The Vols are 3-0 at home this season.
* UT leads the series 3-0 against Radford with all three games played in Knoxville ... The Vols won the first meeting 106-63 in the 1992-93 season and took a 72-46 decision during the 1999-2000 season.
* Radford, who connected on 6-of-7 from three-point distance in the first half, led 38-30 at halftime ... The Highlanders outrebounded the Vols 19-11 in the first half ... After Radford opened a 48-37 advantage with 17:04 remaining in the second half, the Vols took their first lead of the game (51-50) when Jon Higgins hit a three-pointer with 11:07 remaining to cap a 14-2 run ... Thaydeus Holden's three-pointer with 2:38 remaining put the Vols up 65-64 ... The Vols held Radford without a field goal in the final 7:15, outscoring the Highlanders 13-2 during that stretch.
* Vincent Yarbrough moved to No. 16 on the Vols' all-time scoring list with 20 points tonight ... Yarbrough passed former UT All-America Herman Thompson (1954-57), who scored 1319 points during his career ... Yarbrough enters Thursday's game at Louisville with 1338 career points and needs just six points to pass Mike Edwards (1343) for No. 15 ... Yarbrough entered tonight's games as the SEC's leading scorer (20.1 ppg) ... Yarbrough played 38 minutes tonight.
* With four steals tonight, Yarbrough also moved into a tie for the No. 2 spot on the Vols' all-time steals list with Tyrone Beaman (173) ... Fred Jenkins is the Vols' all-time leader with 177 steals.
* Marcus Haislip made his home debut tonight scoring 14 points and pulling down six rebounds ... Haislip was also in the Vols' starting lineup, just his second career start for the junior from Lewisberg, Tenn ... Haislip started one game last season ... Haislip also tallied 14 in his season debut Saturday at Memphis ... Haislip missed the Vols first six games of the season while serving an academic suspension for the fall semester ... UT's fall semester ended Thursday.
* Junior guard Thaydeus Holden pulled down a career-high eight rebounds (team-leader) to go along with 11 points ... Holden scored eight points in the second half.
* Tennessee travels to Louisville Thursday night for a 7 p.m. (ESPN) game ... The Vols began a four-game stretch in eight days last Saturday at Memphis.
