And the perfect season is gone, too.

Tyler Smith hit a turnaround jumper in the lane with 26.5 seconds left as No. 2-ranked Tennessee knocked off the nation’s last unbeaten team, edging top-ranked Memphis 66-62 on Saturday night.

Tennessee (25-2) won on a night when star guard Chris Lofton scored only seven points, beating the Tigers with a dominating performance on the boards. Lofton did finish it off, hitting two free throws with 4.5 seconds to go after Memphis intentionally missed at the line.

Memphis (26-1) lost at home for the first time since Jan. 2, 2006, ending the nation’s longest home winning streak at 47 games.

“We’ve just got to learn from it. We lost,” Memphis’ Robert Dozier said. “They just out-toughed us. They get every loose ball, every offensive rebound. They just outplayed us.”

The Tigers had hoped to use this game to show their lofty record was proof they were the nation’s best team, not the beneficiaries of playing in unheralded Conference USA.

And, of course, they wanted to stay on track to become the first team since Indiana in 1976 to make it all the way through the season with a perfect record.

But the Hoosiers can rest easy. At the end, Tennessee’s players walked off the court in triumph, holding up the name across the front of their orange jerseys to taunt the stunned crowd. The small group of Vols fans who actually got in the building hung around to chant, “We’re No. 1! We’re No. 1!”

Tennessee surely will be No. 1 when the next poll comes out - for the first time in school history, just as Vols coach Bruce Pearl predicted at a pep rally before the game, then again at halftime.

“I wanted to make sure our guys knew we were playing for something,” Pearl said. “I don’t know if we’re the best team in the country. I knew we were 40 minutes away from being No. 1.”

Smith scored 16 points to lead the Vols, while Wayne Chism and J.P. Prince added 13 apiece. But Tennessee did its best work on the boards, overpowering the Tigers with a season-high 50 rebounds. Memphis had 34.

The Tigers were up when Smith took a pass from Lofton, backed in and hit the jumper for a 62-61 lead. Antonio Anderson missed badly for Memphis at the other end, and the Tigers were forced to foul.

“I really don’t even remember,” Smith said. “I just remember the shot going in.”

Prince hit a pair of free throws to make it a three-point game, and Tennessee fouled before Memphis could go for a tying 3-point shot. Instead, Derrick Rose made the first free throw of a 1-and-1 situation but had to miss the second intentionally so the Tigers could grab the rebound.

No way. Tennessee came down with it and Lofton was fouled. He shot 2-of-11 from the field but calmly sank the two foul shots that finished off the Tigers’ perfect record.

Memphis clanked plenty of foul shots it was trying to make. The Tigers, one of the nation’s worst free throw-shooting teams, lived up to their ranking by making just eight of 17 at the line.

Rose led Memphis with 23 points, but Chris Douglas-Roberts was the only other player in double figures, with 14 points. The Tigers looked to be in good shape when Douglas-Roberts scored on a layup with 2:28 left, putting his team up 61-58.

Then Smith went to work. He answered with a drive of his own, pulling the Vols to 61-60, then hit the game-winner - but only after Memphis squandered three chances on one possession to extend the margin.

Doneal Mack missed a 3, but the Tigers grabbed a long rebound. Rose missed, and Memphis chased it down again. Finally, after playing without the ball for some 90 seconds, the Vols finally grabbed it away off a shot by Dozier that banged off the front of the rim.