INDIANAPOLIS — Zakai Zeigler and Tennessee booked a spot in the Elite Eight with a 78-65 win over Kentucky, avenging a pair of regular-season losses to advance to a regional final for the second consecutive season.The second-seeded Vols (30-7) went from Sweet to Elite on Friday with a super-sized effort from the smallest player on the court.Zeigler had 18 points and 10 assists and dogged the Wildcats’ hot-shooting guard trio into a rough closing performance in the Midwest Region semifinal. Zeigler crippled the Kentucky defense in the first half, repeatedly carving his way into the lane to establish a double-digit lead the Vols carried most of the game.Chaz Lanier scored 17 points and Jordan Gainey added 16 for the Volunteers.Lamont Butler led third-seeded Kentucky (24-12) with 18 points and hit four of the Wildcats’ six 3-pointers.Urgency set in too late for Kentucky. Butler began knocking down shots and sparked some faint noise from the Wildcats’ crowd with a pair of 3s and an aggressive downhill drive, only to be shaken by Zeigler on the other end with Gainey cutting through the lane for a sweeping right-handed flush to kick the Tennessee advantage back to 15.A Zeigler steal on the inbounds led to a contested 3 from the right wing with Kentucky’s 6-foot-10 Brandon Garrison — closing out with a lunge and both arms outstretched toward the shot — turned into just another Superman freezeframe for the Tennessee point guard. As the triple circled the rim and went down, a spinebuster play for Kentucky, Zeigler posed in Garrison’s mug and the Wildcats trudged off the floor down 65-48 with less than nine minutes to go.Sparked by Naismith Defensive Player of the Year semifinalists Zeigler and Jahmai Mashack, Tennessee appeared to be playing with five All-SEC defenders on Friday. Mashack had five steals and helped force 12 Kentucky turnovers.