No. 9 Tennessee (2-0) defeated Radford (0-3), 70-47, Monday at Food City Center. 18,483 were in attendance for the nonconference game.
12th-year Tennessee head coach Rick Barnes discussed the Vols' performance after the game.
"I thought, defensively, you know, we've worked hard for a long time, but we're starting to communicate better defensively," Barnes said. "Radford, good basketball team, the tape we shown, we showed our guys a lot like Wofford, very well coached team that's going to run their stuff, do the things they need to do, but I thought defensively our communication was better. We knew we had, again, they're the type of team that wants to get to the to the rim or shoot threes. I thought we had some really good individual plays tonight
where they tried to isolate and get by us, and for the most part we we did a pretty good job.
"Did a pretty good job not fouling overall, but offensively the execution is not even close to what I know we're capable of, and looks like we've got too many guys that are too anxious to shoot the ball as opposed to. I don't think we've got a selfish guy on our team. I really don't. I just think that we got guys that have to understand that what we do works and we'll make it work, but we're just a little bit too hyper offensively."
The Vols will next play Tennessee State. The in-state matchup is scheduled for 7 p.m. EST on Friday at Food City Center (SEC Network+).
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