The Official #4 Tennessee vs #15 Kentucky Game Thread, Saturday 4:00 PM EST/CBS

[Putbacks]

Sickening studio love for Kentucky.

 

[87&91ALUM]

ZZ with 2 fouls. Aidoo, Awaka, Gainey, and Mashack all with 1 foul. Five UK players with two fouls including Theiro.

 

[Sportslady]

why doesn't kelly call a time out with Tamari had no shoe. Sorry, wrong thread, I turned on the SC/VOLS blowout.

I’m at the women’s game. Jack after hack and no calls.

 

[Just a VolinTears]

Live Look at Knecht whenever he drives to the paint

 

[SGMVols]

Whoa, Houstin up 19 on Kansas at the half.

Kansas has been a bad road team all year.

 

[87&91ALUM]

I think he’s got all 29

19

 

[JCP201]

Fools gold with Tennessee? This announcer is pissing me off. The person who says we probably won't get a one seed is probably on to something, if ESPN is any indication.

 

[TNVOL68]

Is fools gold the way these morons going to describe Tennessee now

 

[TheMookieMonster]

Terrible half. I have to believe we’ll close out those threes and play better defense. We have to produce something on offense besides Knecht. ZZ returning should get us better movement, but we have to stop forcing things that aren’t there. I won’t be surprised if the refs call an entirely different game in the second half. Kentucky is mauling us and only getting called for half the fouls they commmit. Let’s go get it.

And of course if you go look at the Kentucky boards and Kentucky twitter they are saying if it wasn’t for the refs they’d be up 15. They truly believe they have not been fouling at all.

 

[LibertyVol]

Everyone except DK is playing afraid on the offensive end. We aren't in any significant foul trouble so should be aggressive defensively the entire 2nd half.

They get like this sometimes. They just get a little tentative and go cold. You can usually tell early on. Just don’t understand it.

 

[VFL9798]

Thank God for Dalton Knecht.. keeping us in this one

 

[vol94]

Need more scoring from others, but the talking heads drive me crazy as TN has won prior games with others stepping up.

 

[Score50]

The ref whining is comical. It's 11-6 in our favor, yet some act like every sliver of contact is a foul on UK, and the Vols have never once in their 100+ year history ever committed a foul.

Amen brother. People always blame the friggin refs for everything on this site.

 

[ColinS]

The ref whining is comical. It's 11-6 in our favor, yet some act like every sliver of contact is a foul on UK, and the Vols have never once in their 100+ year history ever committed a foul.

It's so low baskeball IQ for these whiners. They are allowing one on one defensive contact for both teams. They are only calling fouls when you beat your man to the spot and that's why DK has shot most of the free throws in this game. He is so crafty.

 

[Putbacks]

Clark Kellogg earning some ‘Kat Kash with his campaigning….

 

[Volnbeers]

Why’d that person make Caitlin Clark so fat on her poster

 

[berryvol]

And of course if you go look at the Kentucky boards and Kentucky twitter they are saying if it wasn’t for the refs they’d be up 15. They truly believe they have not been fouling at all.

You’d think they’d be happy to see some hard nosed defense for once. Guess they’d rather score 90 and us score 100 again. Idiots.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

Vescovi and James have to step up. 0 combined points in the first half and both playing timid now.

It’s your last home game against your biggest rival, come on.

 

[TheMookieMonster]

The ref whining is comical. It's 11-6 in our favor, yet some act like every sliver of contact is a foul on UK, and the Vols have never once in their 100+ year history ever committed a foul.

There is nothing to complain about with the officials. I’m not upset with how they called the game. I’m just pointing out that it’s been an incredibly physical performance by Kentucky and they realistically could have been called for more fouls, but I’m sure we got a way with a few as well so it’s fine.

 

[Voltopia]

Fools gold with Tennessee? This announcer is pissing me off. The person who says we probably won't get a one seed is probably on to something, if ESPN is any indication.

The guys on ESPN made the SAME "fool's gold" comment about Tennessee at the half against South Carolina.

You can just feel the collective sports media blue bloods scrambling all over each other to undercut Tennessee.

 

[Buddy’s Bandit]

Vescovi and James have to step up. 0 combined points in the first half and both playing timid now.

It’s your last home game against your biggest rival, come on.

Yes …. And Z. This is his type game.

 

[KnoxtotheBoro20]

The ref whining is comical. It's 11-6 in our favor, yet some act like every sliver of contact is a foul on UK, and the Vols have never once in their 100+ year history ever committed a foul.

The “whining” is because 3 of the 6 UK blocks were body shots before the block, which allowed momentum for Uk. I’m sorry if that is hard to understand when you are talking about game that could game down to 1 possession at the end lol

 

[Pennheel]

In typical Kentucky fashion,they're getting away with a few no calls. However, This team needs to step up on the offensive end outside of Knecht. Everyone else can't be spectators. They showed it against Alabama when Knecht was in foul trouble and struggled to score. They stepped up. They need to do that more consistently.

 

[Vol737]

Really need one of ZZ's huge threes early this half

Need more than one from him. I’m hoping ZZ drains several and sets some momentum. He’s got to be a bigger factor scoring than he’s been so far.

 

[VolFreakJosh]

We’ve done enough for a 1 seed.

I believe we played a more brutal schedule than they have.