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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Denzel Aberdeen scored 22 points, 18 in the second half, and Kentucky<\/a> rallied from a 17-point first-half deficit to knock off No. 24 Tennessee<\/a>, 80-78, on Saturday.<\/p>\n Trailing 80-78 with 2.6 seconds left, Tennessee’s Ja’Kobi Gillespie went to the free throw line for one shot. He intentionally missed, and teammate Jaylen Carey got the rebound in a scrum. His attempt to tie the game at the buzzer was stuffed by several Wildcats players.<\/p>\n After the buzzer, pushing and shoving in front of the Tennessee bench ensued. Players from both teams were quickly separated.<\/p>\n It was the second time this week that the Wildcats (12-6, 3-2 Southeastern Conference) won after being down in the second half by at least 17 points. They trailed Auburn by 18 on Wednesday night before winning by one.<\/p>\n Otega Oweh, Jasper Johnson and Collin Chandler all scored 12 points and Mohammed Dioubate added 10.<\/p>\n Gillespie scored 24 points for the Volunteers (12-6, 2-3). Nat Ament added 17.<\/p>\n Gillespie had 14 points at halftime and Tennessee’s physicality was obvious in the Vols’ 42-31 advantage. Tennessee dominated the boards, 20-12, and led 8-1 in offensive rebounds.<\/p>\n Kentucky: The Wildcats will host Texas on Wednesday.<\/p>\n Tennessee: The Vols have a week off before they travel to Alabama next Saturday.<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here and here (AP News mobile app). AP college basketball: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll and https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-basketball<\/p>\n \n Copyright 2026 STATS LLC and Associated Press. Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of STATS LLC and Associated Press is strictly prohibited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Denzel Aberdeen scored 22 points, 18 in the second half, and Kentucky rallied from a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,217,3075,231,772,1544,1797],"class_list":{"0":"post-543485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-kentucky-wildcats","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-basketball","13":"tag-ncaab","14":"tag-tennessee-volunteers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115912496790181559","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}