The Official #3 Tennessee vs. #11 Michigan NCAA Tournament Game Thread, 5:50 PM ET, CBS

[SlyStone]

Dickerson dictated the game. We’ve not seen a 7’-1” guy who could shoot that well. All the tv breaks saved them allowing Dickerson enough breaks to play a bunch of minutes

Those Media time outs just kills teams. Watched Davidson lose their rhythm last night because of this.

 

[LieutenantNeyland]

I didn’t say “robbed”

It had an impact on where we could have scored crucial points and have a couple more possessions.

This was no where near a fair officiated game.

Hes incapable of seeing how much favoritism Dickinson got all night.

 

[landscapingvol]

Barnes did a great job finding ways to get his best 3 pt shooter open looks didn't he. Vescovi w 5 points. Way to go Rick.

Vescovi couldn’t get open, he was outplayed most of the night

 

[GhostVol]

knoxchief said:
Waiting on Football Season now! GBO

Same here. It's officially Football season,

Fie on both of you!!!

It's BASEBALL time in Tennessee now!!!

 

[tnvols72]

Just stop with the excuses. Barnes is a great program builder but he’s never going to take us to the F4 or win the big prize. It’s time we ask ourselves is that good enough or not?

If you are lucky Tn might hire a coach who cant get into the tournament.. How many F4 have you seen Tn in?

 

[Vol49er]

It could be worse guys, we could have lost to some peacocks. Just saying.

While I’m glad we advanced further than Kentucky I’m gonna hurl thinking about a potential Duke-UNC-Michigan-Auburn F4. Not saying I think that happens but it’s still a possibility

 

[VOLnVANDYland]

I saw a team get outplayed, not a team that was unprepared. There’s an enormous difference, and if you can’t tell the difference I don’t know what to tell you.

If you can’t recognize a tournament pattern, we’ll I don’t know what to tell you

 

[BreatheUT]

Yeah the lack of boxing out was pretty glaring, too.

When James plays the 4 that lineup doesn't rebound well. Especially against a big team.

Also, we never got their bigs in foul trouble where they had to sit.

 

[LieutenantNeyland]

They certainly can , but they were zero responsible tonight. It was on the players or Barnes or a combination of both.

Zero is too low of a number

 

[SonOfGodVolforlife]

Guys real quick 2 positives, we won the sec championship and most importantly we didn’t lose to a team called the peacocks

 

[cobbwebb0710]

Let’s be honest…around the rim they were getting ******** calls on top of hitting shots like a hip sky hook

Yeah, that pull one outta your @$$, hook, as time was expiring to go up by 4, was ridiculous!
GBO!!

 

[lifeisdeep]

He's gone to a final 4. Guys were cold today which isn't really on coaching

It’s on coaching when you’re two of eleven on threes and the coach lets them keep bricking them up until the game is lost.

 

[TheMagnificantOne]

That's brutal

 

[utvolpj]

Barnes is a major choker. Always has been always will be.

How many times are you going to post the same sht? Good grief find something else

 

[TooLegit2Quit]

Same here. It's officially Football season,

*Baseball

 

[Pepe_Silvia]

Just stop with the excuses. Barnes is a great program builder but he’s never going to take us to the F4 or win the big prize. It’s time we ask ourselves is that good enough or not?

He's probably not too far from retiring now anyways. He's good enough to maintain our basketball program as an attractive destination so we should retain him until he decides to hang it up. Don't want to see our basketball program turn into a dumpster fire like football did.

 

[djohnnyg]

We could be undefeated and Barnes will still find a way to not make it out of the first weekend.

 

[GBO18]

Why would you think any TN fan on this board would care about this?

@YankeeVol LOVES when his "teams" lose.

 

[Vol8188]

He couldn’t keep up with his man. His guy constantly went right by him. To be fair he wasn’t alone there though. But he also couldn’t get loose to get any good looks. Credit Michigan on that. They were quicker and worked hard to keep V in check.

The issues I saw on D weren’t from him. It was Fulky unable to play the pick n roll.

Uros got beat some off the dribble but if you’re guarding a 7 footer who can hit 3s and force you that far out and take you off the dribble, we have to be get help to the ball. Our defensive help was slow

 

[tnvols72]

Barnes did a great job finding ways to get his best 3 pt shooter open looks didn't he. Vescovi w 5 points. Way to go Rick.

how many open 3s did JJJ , ZZ have and was not close on any of them?

 

[orchidvol]

News flash Michigan loses next game

They probably play Villanova and will get blown out. Michigan's trash coach will take a swing at Jay Wright after they get embarrassed.

 

[walkenvol]

You just helped make my point. Uros’ best game of his career is scoring 9 points lol. He’s simply not a SEC starting caliber player.

And I’m not even a Uros hater. My ealier point is that he is extremely unathletic which I don’t think can be argued and he simply isn’t good enough for us to depend on to take over a game.

You don’t have a clue. Uros is every bit as athletic as Dickinson who just beat us. 7 footers who are 250+ And can switch on screens are not commonplace. He also had 9 rebounds and 2 steals and was the only guy who could remotely guard their big man

 

[ABINGDON VOL FAN]

Zero is too low of a number

We were simply outplayed in the last seven minutes. Michigan wanted it more. Case closed.

 

[Vol8188]

Is this the he played with heart argument? He had 5 points and two assists, including a couple very costly lapses on defense. What game were you watching?

A lot more to the game than points

 

[vol94]

Not even close to that level. I will never be over that loss until we win the SEC again. 24 years and counting.

My point is that I thought we were final four bound and invested in this team. My fault for allowing outcome of a sporting event to dampen my mood but is what it is.