University of Tennessee Athletics
Postgame Notes
January 16, 2002 | Men's Basketball
Jan. 16, 2002
Tennessee vs. Mississippi State
Jan. 16, 2002 - Humphery Coliseum, Starkville, Miss.
* Tennessee goes to 6-9 (1-3 SEC) on the season ... Mississippi State improves to 15-3 (2-1 SEC) ... MSU ended the Vols' two-game winning streak in the series ...
* Tonight's game was the Vols' seventh loss this season by four points or less ... In fact, those seven losses are by a combined 16 points ... Two of the losses have been by one point (at Louisville, at Miss. State) ... Two of the losses have been in overtime (Florida, at Miss. State) ... UT's three SEC losses have been by a total of eight points and two have gone to overtime.
* Marcus Haislip scored a career-high 27 points tonight ... Haislip's previous high was 22 points against West Virginia last season ...Haislip connected on 12-of-22 from the field tonight ... He played a career-best 40 minutes tonight and his field goals made and attempts are also career-highs.
* Jon Higgins scored a season-high 16 points tonight, connecting on 6-of-14 from the fiend and 3-of-9 from three-point range ... Higgins missed a three-pointer at the final buzzer ... His previous season-high was 12 points at SMU.
* Vincent Yarbrough, who entered the game as the SEC leading scorer at 19.5 points, scored 17 points tonight ... He now has 1467 for his UT career to rank No. 12 on the Vols' all-time scoring list.
* Tennessee connected on 54 percent from the field (37-of-68), including a red-hot 59 percent in the second half (19-of-32) ... Tonight was the Vols' best shooting effort since connecting of 60 percent at SMU Dec. 6 and the Vols' best in SEC play this season ... MSU hit 57 percent from the field tonight.
* Tennessee returns home to face No. 7-ranked Syracuse Saturday in a 8 p.m. tipoff that will be telecasted nationally on ESPN ... The Vols defeated the Oranagemen 83-70 at the Carrier Dome last season ... Syracuse leads the series 3-2
