Tennessee Lady Vol News

[MAD]

Lady Vols ranking holds steady at #11, Massey.com

If you ever make it to Columbus, they have good pizza

 

[LVsinceJV]

Lady Vols bounce up from #20 to #15 on the barttorvik.com ratings!

Pleasant surprise, they predicted a 20-pt blowout, so their algorithm rewards us for close losses. I'd really like to get a win or two against SC, LSU, or UConn before the season's out!

 

[Volfan2012]

With every loss we move further up the NET now at number 13. Wonder what a win would do for us?

 

[37620VOL]

HHS now has us ranked #9, up one spot

They had predicted a 12.8 point loss

 

[NoBackBoard]

I say 1-4. And to think, before conference I thought we’d “mow” through it.

Due to the emotional distress we’ve gone through for the past decade, I’ve been able to handle losing a little better lately. The future being bright helps me alot! I just hate how we’ve been a couple of points, better quarters, and box outs away from being in the top 3 by now!

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Same, 1-4. Our half court defense and defensive rebounding need improvement for us to beat the top teams.

We are at that all too familiar point in the season where the team & staff know what is holding us back and we get to wait patiently each game to see if they learned the lesson or just didn’t feel like playing today.

 

[glv98]

We are at that all too familiar point in the season where the team & staff know what is holding us back and we get to wait patiently each game to see if they learned the lesson or just didn’t feel like playing today.

Or, way more likely, they don't yet have the skill to do those things consistently and/or the staff hasn't effectively taught a young and new team how to achieve those things consistently against the top competition.

 

[lvocd]

Same, 1-4. Our half court defense and defensive rebounding need improvement for us to beat the top teams.

We are at that all too familiar point in the season where the team & staff know what is holding us back and we get to wait patiently each game to see if they learned the lesson or just didn’t feel like playing today.

I guarantee folks that nobody on this team, nor any of the last decade of harder times, are deciding they just "don't feel like playing today."

Most of these players have aspirations to play pro ball or be coaches someday. Does anyone truly believe these players are making conscious decisions to simply not want to play their best on any given day? Does anyone truly believe they are simply deciding they don't care whether they win or lose or have to bear the pain of facing the hateful public after each loss, and possibly looking bad to pro scouts who dot these games?

If anyone truly believes any of that they are way out in left field. They may care TOO MUCH, which can be paralyzing, but NEVER too little.