Not the end of the world

[GBO97]

Tough loss, and it’ll suck to hear UK fans talk crap, but it’s not that big of a deal at the end of the day. We still control our destiny for the SEC crown and for a 1 seed. Every one of our goals is still very much on the table. Now we know exactly what we have to improve in order to win games against elite teams in the later rounds of the tournament. Let em have their fun, they were the better team today, but I guarantee this won’t happen again in TBA in 2 weeks. Go Vols

 

[Sportslady]

Tough loss, and it’ll suck to hear UK fans talk crap, but it’s not that big of a deal at the end of the day. We still control our destiny for the SEC crown and for a 1 seed. Every one of our goals is still very much on the table. Now we know exactly what we have to improve in order to win games against elite teams in the later rounds of the tournament. Let em have their fun, they were the better team today, but I guarantee this won’t happen again in TBA in 2 weeks. Go Vols

I thought it was a little but on the low class side for KY to not pull the ball back out with 30 seconds left. Hope Coach Cal has a word with the team about the last goal. I know they were open but the game was out of reach so show some class.....

 

[HighWaterVol]

Season over (blue font)

 

[GBO97]

I thought it was a little but on the low class side for KY to not pull the ball back out with 30 seconds left. Hope Coach Cal has a word with the team about the last goal. I know they were open but the game was out of reach so show some class.....

Par for the course. Unfortunately we helped put them in the position to do that.

 

[HighWaterVol]

Actually, good time to happen. Hopefully this is a wake up call, and get team focused and fired up going down the stretch

 

[Wezcoast]

Agree with everything except the guarantee. I could see us getting waxed again at home. But we've become a very good BB team. Just not elite yet. Still, we have been fun to watch this year. Not losing sleep over this loss.

 

[kylealexanderfan]

I thought it was a little but on the low class side for KY to not pull the ball back out with 30 seconds left. Hope Coach Cal has a word with the team about the last goal. I know they were open but the game was out of reach so show some class.....

It was. Grant called off the pressure and were going to let them dribble it out then they do that. Oh well.

 

[McCat]

I thought it was a little but on the low class side for KY to not pull the ball back out with 30 seconds left. Hope Coach Cal has a word with the team about the last goal. I know they were open but the game was out of reach so show some class.....

Play defense?

 

[VolFreakJosh]

Play defense?

*Whistle blows*

 

[LittleCat]

I thought it was a little but on the low class side for KY to not pull the ball back out with 30 seconds left. Hope Coach Cal has a word with the team about the last goal. I know they were open but the game was out of reach so show some class.....

Play defense. The shot clock was less than the game time left.

 

[VolFreakJosh]

Play defense. The shot clock was less than the game time left.

Still classless.

 

[McCat]

Play defense. The shot clock was less than the game time left.

This. A meaningless, cheap bucket means nothing unless you have money writing on the game.

 

[KoachKrab127]

We played our first bad game of the season after winning 19 in a row. It only matters what happens going forward now. Learn from it, and continue to get better. Let's see what this team's character is like, going through the toughest part of the schedule.

 

[KB5252]

I'm glad this one is in the rearview, I'm ready to see how this team responds.

 

[LittleCat]

Still classless.

Classless? You're down 15 or whatever at that point and the shot clock is running out before the game clock. The players didn't seem to mind it. That's soft.

 

[cardvolfan]

Play defense?

You're a classy person.

 

[CAVPUT]

Tough loss, and it’ll suck to hear UK fans talk crap, but it’s not that big of a deal at the end of the day. We still control our destiny for the SEC crown and for a 1 seed. Every one of our goals is still very much on the table. Now we know exactly what we have to improve in order to win games against elite teams in the later rounds of the tournament. Let em have their fun, they were the better team today, but I guarantee this won’t happen again in TBA in 2 weeks. Go Vols

Noted, but I'm not that sure.

 

[McCat]

You're a classy person.

Guaranteed if you ask coach Barnes about the bucket, he would say the same thing. Tennessee should have gotten back on defense. Play to the whistle.

 

[RockyTopTexas]

We'll get em in 2 weeks.. tough loss tho especially with the way we played

 

[1985Vols]

We better get it together before going to LSU next week. Just my opinion but LSU is better than KY ( well they did beat them at Rupp too). We'll have to play as well as we did vs. Gonzaga to win in Baton Rouge

 

[JohnD13]

Anyone with half a brain knows we will lose 2 or 3 conference games. Now we just need to keep it at that number

 

[JohnD13]

Classless? You're down 15 or whatever at that point and the shot clock is running out before the game clock. The players didn't seem to mind it. That's soft.

Time to put all other school fans on ignore,go home pudsybcat. Go home

 

[Sportslady]

Seemed to be some confusion as Grant was calling off the fouls and the team slowed down. At that point I would hope the other team would ride out the few seconds left.

 

[ckilla27]

What is KY supposed to do? Just dribble and let the shot clock run out for a turnover? We didn't get back, they get an easy dunk. Simple. We would have done the same thing, some of you all are soft. Why dont we talked about the other 39 minutes we got manhandled? Thats the reason we lost...

 

[kylealexanderfan]

Seemed to be some confusion as Grant was calling off the fouls and the team slowed down. At that point I would hope the other team would ride out the few seconds left.

Exactly - it wasn’t that the just were being lazy or refusing to play defense/being soft as the dumbass Kentucky fan put it.

Grant called off the fouls so the game wouldn’t extend another 10 minute unnecessarily. Should’ve put an elbow in someone’s kidney for that - would’ve been nice pay back for Washington throwing his shoulder into Grant’s face also.