The Official #4 Tennessee vs. #9 Florida Atlantic NCAA Tournament Game Thread, 9:00 PM ET, TBS

[Caz]

What a suprise. Baseball chokes, basketball chokes, and football let a playoff spot slip away.

It’s the TN curse!

 

[VolunteerCeltic]

Need a roster overhaul

 

[Putbacks]

When you can’t trust the officiating and the media has deceived the public all week, it makes for a tremendous hurdle to overcome. And FAU is legit.

 

[casetopia]

Meh it is what it is. Zz stays healthy who knows what would have happened. Thems the breaks.

 

[JMSqb11]

You can't play this bad offensively this deep in the tournament. They were going to start hitting shots at some point

We are in the lead if we win the rebounding margin.

 

[volahoma]

 

[SlyStone]

Much like Chandler last year, Mashack came to play. So many no shows tonight for the Vols.

 

[Jdw2920]

I just wish we would get some offensive players going forward. Make it into the 80s and quit having these scoring droughts

 

[DeepSpringsVol]

Traveled

 

[volbound1700]

There is a reason Kentucky is royalty in the SEC, teams like Tennessee always choke in March. Alabama will too, I told everyone they won't make Final Four, they haven't yet.

Whenever an SEC team makes a final four, it is either Florida or Kentucky or it is a weird 7/8 seed team that just hits fire and makes a run like South Carolina years ago or Auburn.

This is why SEC basketball is mostly just Kentucky and trash. Arkansas got smacked around today as well.

 

[RyanWalkerPGH]

Can’t wait to have a mostly new roster. This team was so unlikeable imo.

 

[hUTch2002]

I’m not even mad. No one picked the Vols to make it out of the first round, much less the S16. Accomplishing that after the loss of ZZ is remarkable.

Yeah but nothing really changed after ZZ went out. Our inconsistencies were showing up before his injury. Phillips was a huge disappointment, Mashack a nice surprise. Decent year overall but tough to go out being out-hustled on the boards. That’s frustrating.

 

[Putbacks]

No foul. He walked.

 

[NO SIR EEE]

The offensive rebounds did us in. Can't believe that actually happened. Both halves!

Out rebounded by what looks like a 5 foot 6 guard

 

[MyAll]

Recruit some offense in the off season. See ya next year.

Lol man had KEVIN DURANT

 

[Jxn Vol]

I feel like it’s the South Carolina football game all over again

 

[JMSqb11]

Meh it is what it is. Zz stays healthy who knows what would have happened. Thems the breaks.

I don’t think we go as far with ZZ.

 

[Vols2015]

Another missed walk

 

[BreatheUT]

No sense of urgency until it was too late.

 

[vavolfan6]

Most frustrating part about tonight was that I never foresaw us losing the rebounding battle. In fact, I thought we would clearly dominate it.

 

[Tenacjim]

I wish we played small

I just wish we had “played” period.

 

[hUTch2002]

There is a reason Kentucky is royalty in the SEC, teams like Tennessee always choke in March. Alabama will too, I told everyone they won't make Final Four, they haven't yet.

Whenever an SEC team makes a final four, it is either Florida or Kentucky or it is a weird 7/8 seed team that just hits fire and makes a run like South Carolina years ago or Auburn.

This is why SEC basketball is mostly just Kentucky and trash. Arkansas got smacked around today as well.

Kentucky hasn’t done sh1t since 2015.

 

[BreatheUT]

That wasn't a foul.

 

[Unconditional Surrender]

Historically we’ve never been good in march so we should accept that moving forward and enjoy having good regular seasons with mediocre tourney results. Right???

But this wasn't a good regular season. 0-2 against Kentucky.

 

[ColinS]

Mashack brought it. I look forward to the keys being turned over to guys like him instead of softies like James and ON