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What head coach Rick Barnes said after No. 12 Tennessee opened the season with an 80-64 win over Gardner-Webb Monday night at Food City Center: Opening Statement “First, it was a really good opener for us. It’s an extremely, extremely well coached team and we knew that coming in. They were going to do what we thought, and they do it well. They adjusted at the end where they were just driving, putting their bodies on us, taking us down low. And defensively, I thought we were OK for the most part other than what we gave them, turnovers and second-chance points. They went and took it and made mad…

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