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Posted on: December 27, 2021 at 16:11:20 CT
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On Dec. 15, 1973, that's what the Stokely Athletics Center scoreboard read at the final horn:
Tennessee 11, Temple 6.
That night, in the championship game of the Volunteer Classic, next to nothing happened. A newspaper account said Temple held the ball for 32 minutes and 5 seconds of the 40 minutes.
It was the lowest-scoring college game of the modern era. And it will stay that way, considering the shot clock arrived in 1985-86 - to prevent precisely what happened that night.
"I remember it was so tight and nerve-wracking, because every point was important,'' Rodney Woods, Tennessee's 1973-74 point guard, recalled this week.
What happened was two coaches, UT's Ray Mears and Temple's Don Casey, got into a standoff and wouldn't budge.
Mears didn't like his man-to-man defensive match-up against quicker Temple and packed the Vols in a zone.
Casey, having watched UT rout DePaul 96-61 the previous night, didn't want to run with Tennessee. His intent was to milk the clock each possession, but then he got carried away, trying to force the Vols out of the zone.
Mears refused.
"Austin Clark kind of ventured out a few times,'' said Woods, "and I remember them (Mears and assistant Stu Aberdeen) threatening to kill him if he didn't get back and keep things tight.''
Ernie Grunfeld, a freshman, scored to put UT up 7-5 at the 12:44 mark of the first half. The Owls stalled the rest of the half until turning the ball over just before the horn.
There wasn't a single field goal in the second half. John Snow hit a technical free throw with 17:58 left to make it 8-5.
Temple held the ball, guards John Kneib and Rick Trudeaux exchanging passes, until only a couple of minutes remained.
Snow hit three more free throws in the final seconds, leaving it 11-5. Temple got a free throw at the end and that was it, 17 total points.
Nobody liked it. The crowd pelted the floor with ice.
On Dec. 15, 1973, that's what the Stokely Athletics Center scoreboard read at the final horn:
Tennessee 11, Temple 6.
That night, in the championship game of the Volunteer Classic, next to nothing happened. A newspaper account said Temple held the ball for 32 minutes and 5 seconds of the 40 minutes.
It was the lowest-scoring college game of the modern era. And it will stay that way, considering the shot clock arrived in 1985-86 - to prevent precisely what happened that night.
"I remember it was so tight and nerve-wracking, because every point was important,'' Rodney Woods, Tennessee's 1973-74 point guard, recalled this week.
What happened was two coaches, UT's Ray Mears and Temple's Don Casey, got into a standoff and wouldn't budge.
Mears didn't like his man-to-man defensive match-up against quicker Temple and packed the Vols in a zone.
Casey, having watched UT rout DePaul 96-61 the previous night, didn't want to run with Tennessee. His intent was to milk the clock each possession, but then he got carried away, trying to force the Vols out of the zone.
Mears refused.
"Austin Clark kind of ventured out a few times,'' said Woods, "and I remember them (Mears and assistant Stu Aberdeen) threatening to kill him if he didn't get back and keep things tight.''
Ernie Grunfeld, a freshman, scored to put UT up 7-5 at the 12:44 mark of the first half. The Owls stalled the rest of the half until turning the ball over just before the horn.
There wasn't a single field goal in the second half. John Snow hit a technical free throw with 17:58 left to make it 8-5.
Temple held the ball, guards John Kneib and Rick Trudeaux exchanging passes, until only a couple of minutes remained.
Snow hit three more free throws in the final seconds, leaving it 11-5. Temple got a free throw at the end and that was it, 17 total points.
Nobody liked it. The crowd pelted the floor with ice.
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