VOLS LIKELY END A SHORT RUN BY TIDE ATOP THE POLLS

Rocky Top was too much for top-ranked Alabama.

Zakai Zeigler and Santiago Vescovi each scored 15 points and No. 10 Tennessee extended the jinx for No. 1 teams, jolting the visiting Crimson Tide 68-59 on Wednesday night.

On Monday, Alabama climbed to the top spot in The Associated Press poll for the first time since the 2002-03 season. But playing for the first time since the new rankings came out, the Crimson Tide (22-4, 12-1 SEC) led just once in the early going and committed 19 turnovers.

Alabama’s loss was the eighth by an AP No. 1 team this season. That ties the most in a regular season with 1993-94 in a stat dating to 1948-49.

“We turned the ball over too much tonight,” Crimson Tide coach Nate Oats said. “(Tennessee) got 26 points off the turnovers. Their physicality. They got into our guards and we couldn’t handle it.”

Tennessee bounced back from a pair of last-second defeats.

“After those tough losses, we stayed with it,” coach Rick Barnes said. “We didn’t splinter.”

Vols big man Jonas Aidoo added 12 points and 11 rebounds for the Volunteers (20-6, 9-5).

“It takes confidence,” he said. “We go through the ups and downs. We just do what we do and play hard and we’ll be fine.”

The Tide’s only lead in this game came at 12-11.

No. 7 Virginia 61, Louisville 58: Armaan Franklin and Kihei Clark each scored 14 points and Virginia (20-4, 12-3 Atlantic Coast Conference) endured a stern challenge from struggling host Louisville (3-23, 114) and its own poor freethrow shooting (9 of 16) to win its third straight game.

No. 11 Marquette 69, No. 16 Xavier 68: Olivier-Maxence Prosper tipped in a putback with 1.6 seconds left and Marquette (21-6, 13-3) edged visiting Xavier (19-7, 11-4) to extend its slim Big East lead. Northwestern 64, No. 14 Indiana 62: Boo Buie scored the tiebreaking basket with two seconds remaining and host Northwestern (19-7, 10-5 Big Ten) defeated Indiana (18-8, 9-6).

No. 19 Iowa State 70, No. 22 TCU 59: Aljaz Kunc had career highs of 22 points and five 3-pointers in his first start in nearly two months, and host Iowa State (17-8, 8-5 Big 12) defeated TCU (17-9, 6-7).

West Boise State 80, Colorado

State 78: Tyson Degenhart scored 19 points as the visiting Broncos (19-6-9-3 MW) held off a late charge by the Rams (11-14, 3-9). Four other Boise State starters were in double figures.