Tennessee basketball spent five weeks ranked No. 1 before falling in the polls in back-to-back weeks following losses to Florida and Vanderbilt.

Tennessee basketball had an uneven week, but the Vols remain at No. 6 in the AP Poll. After a win over a ranked Georgia team on Wednesday, Tennessee lost a hear

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The No. 15 Lady Vols lost another heartbreaker, falling 71-70 to Vanderbilt. It was an uphill battle to erase the 11-point lead at halftime that Vanderbilt (15-4, 2-3 SEC) had built. Tennessee had one of its worst shooting games of the season, going 6-for-26 from 3-point range, and the way the game was called was not in its favor.

Tennessee's women's college basketball team needs to shake off the Vanderbilt loss quickly. The Lady Volunteers lost a heartbreaker on Sunday, as the Vanderbil

Vanderbilt women's basketball beat the Tennessee Lady Vols for the first time in five years with Mikayla Blakes' putback just before time expired.

A day after a late rally by the UT men wasn't quite enough — the sixth-ranked Volunteers missed a chance to force overtime while falling 76-75 on Saturday — the No. 15 Lady Vols suffered a similar finish as Vanderbilt freshman guard Mikayla Blakes capped her game-high 23 points by tipping in a missed shot at the buzzer,