PITTSBURGH – When SEC Commissioner Mike Slive asked Bruce Pearl to play No. 3 Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh in the SEC/Big East Invitational without a return game, Pearl wasn’t exactly fired up about it.
“John Calipari volunteered to play in Louisville, Ky., and somebody needed to go play in Pittsburgh and so I volunteered to go play in Pittsburgh at the encouragement of my commissioner,” Pearl said, referring to Kentucky facing Notre Dame on Wednesday.
As it turned out, No. 11 Tennessee not only made the trip to the Steel City, but pulled off an emphatic 83-76 victory behind a career-high 27 points from Scotty Hopson before a stunned, heavily pro-Pitt crowd of 15,166 at the Consol Energy Center.
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