Spokesman-Review
National Basketball Association
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Georgia 73, Tennessee 62
When: 6:00 PM ET, Saturday, February 17, 2018
Where: Stegeman Coliseum, Athens, Georgia
Officials: # Anthony Jordan, # Rob Rorke, # K.B. Burdett
Attendance: 10028
Senior forward Yante Maten once again carried Georgia to an upset in Southeastern Conference play as the Bulldogs knocked off No. 18 Tennessee 73-62 Saturday evening at Stegeman Coliseum in Athens, Ga.

After scoring 23 points in an overtime win at Florida his previous game, Maten came back with 19, as the Bulldogs (15-11, 6-8 SEC) knocked off the conference's second-place team for a second straight outing. Forward Derek Ogbeide added a season-high 16 off the bench.

Guard Lamonte Turner scored 14 points and forward Kyle Alexander had a double-double with 10 points and 13 rebounds for the Vols (19-7, 9-5).

Georgia pulled away from a two-point halftime lead out to a 10-point cushion, 38-28, in the first three minutes of the second half and was still up 46-37 with 11:21 left in the game before Tennessee began chipping away.

The Vols got within 51-49 at the 7:35 mark, but fell back 57-51 over the next couple of minutes, and Georgia rode out the win. Guard Tyree Crump's 3-pointer gave Georgia a 62-54 lead with under two minutes to play.

The two teams struggled mightily trying to get shots to fall in the early going. It was 8-8 after nearly nine minutes had been played.

Approaching the six-minute mark of the first half, the Bulldogs and Vols were a combined 10-of-38 (26.3 percent) from the field, and Georgia was clinging to a 15-10 lead.

But the two teams both began finding the mark with some regularity in the remaining time, and the Bulldogs went to the locker room up 28-26 at the break after leading 21-12 with under five minutes left in the period.

Georgia was 8-of-23 (34.8 percent) for the first half to Tennessee's 11-of-29 (37.9 percent). The 26 points were a season low in a first half for the Vols, who ended up shooting 34.9 percent for the game to Georgia's 42.6.

--Field Level Media

Top Game Performances
 
Tennessee   Georgia
Lamonte Turner 14 Scoring Yante Maten 19
Jordan Bone 7 Assists William Jackson II 4
Kyle Alexander 13 Rebounds Derek Ogbeide 11
Jordan Bowden 3 Free Throws Made Yante Maten 8
Kyle Alexander 2 Steals William Jackson II 2
Grant Williams 3 Blocks Nicolas Claxton 2
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Points FG% 3PM-3PA FTM-FTA Assists Rebounds Blocks Steals Turnovers
Tennessee 62 34.9 8-25 10-15 12 29 4 5 11
Georgia 73 42.6 6-14 27-38 10 36 3 4 13