University of Tennessee Athletics
Tennessee vs. West Virginia Postgame Notes
December 22, 2001 | Men's Basketball
Dec. 22, 2001
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Tennessee goes to 5-5 on the season ... West Virginia improves to 7-2 ... Today's game ends a stretch of four games in eight days for the Vols ... It is the Vols' third loss by two points or less this season all within an eight-day stretch.
* WVU leads the series 4-2 against Tennessee ... West Virginia leads 2-1 in games played at Knoxville ... The Vols won the last year's meeting 79-78 at Morgantown ... Today's game is the first meeting between the two schools in Knoxville since Dec. 29, 1958-a 76-72 win by the Mountaineers.
Today's loss ended the Vols' 38-game non-conference victory streak 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 57-8 mark at home since the 1997-98 season ... The Vols are 3-1 at home this season.
* Vincent Yarbrough became Tennessee's all-time steals leader today ... With 5 steals this afternoon, Yarbrough now has 179 career thefts ... The Vols' all-time steals list now looks like this: 1. Vincent Yarbrough (179) , 2. Fred Jenkins (177), 3. Tyrone Beaman (173), 4. Dale Ellis (154), 5. Brandon Wharton (150).
* Yarbrough, the SEC's leading scorer entering today's game, scored 14 points ... He also dished out four assists.
Ron Slay equaled his season-high with 23 points today on 6-of-14 shooting from the field and 10-of-12 from the free throw line ... Slay scored 19 of his point s in the second half ... Slay also tallied 23 points in the Vols' 79-62 at SMU.
* Tennessee travels to Wisconsin next Saturday, Dec. 29, for a 2 p.m. (EST) game against the Badgers ... The Vols' next home game is Jan. 6 against Ole Miss (1:30 p.m.-tipoff).
