The Official #4 Tennessee vs Lipscomb Tuesday Game Thread (6:30 PM)

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whobethis16 said:
These guys need to go at least 5-1 over the next 2 weekends to be where they want to be in regards to hosting a regional/Super. 0-6 over the last 2 weekends isn't out of the realm of possibility, especially given they've shown they can lay an egg with the best/worst of them.
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They haven’t been swept all year and have only lost one series. What does your last sentence mean?

According to Kendall Rodgers, just keep winning series, and the last two will be for positioning.
 
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Take this to the bank fellas. On May 10th your TN Vols will be in sole possession of 1st place in the East. What a great day that is going to be.
 
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BruinVol said:
Fact: midweek games this time of the year are worthless and the only team that wants to play them is the little brother type schools.
SEC players damn sure don’t have their mental edge geared up to play these games


Tonight’s game is meaningless
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I noticed that a couple of SEC teams didn’t even play a midweek game this week.
 
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vol66 said:
Arky’s was cancelled cause the other team had Covid issues.
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Vandy, MSU, and Ole Miss didn’t schedule one, and the latter two have another week before the end of the regular season where they did the same. Arkansas only has one more the rest of the year.
 
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BruinVol said:
I don’t think SEC schools should play midweeks the last 3-4 weeks of the year
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I agree with you. By then you should know who your guys are and who you can count on. With the gauntlet all the SEC teams go through each week, a little rest would be good I would think.
 
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TrumpedUpVol said:
4-2 with two series wins keeps Tennessee squarely in the Super Regional discussion, so by no means do the Vols need to go "at least" 5-1 to "be where they want to be" for hosting games in Knoxville.



Good grief... one loss to an inferior opponent and the BVS sets in?
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Given the fact that in the last 5 years no SEC team was a top 8 national seed in the NCAA tournament with fewer than 18 conference wins, I'll believe it when I see it.

Does that mean they could host the Super if they're top 16 and the national seed loses the regional, yeah, but I was under the impression we were trying to get past the point of relying on others to fail to get to where we want.
 
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whobethis16 said:
Given the fact that in the last 5 years no SEC team was a top 8 national seed in the NCAA tournament with fewer than 18 conference wins, I'll believe it when I see it.

Does that mean they could host the Super if they're top 16 and the national seed loses the regional, yeah, but I was under the impression we were trying to get past the point of relying on others to fail to get to where we want.
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My thoughts are that this year, because they are deciding host sites two weeks earlier than normal, the old math might not apply. Same with RPI and SOS, with every conference doing their own thing due to Covid, gonna be difficult to take normal metrics and apply them to this post season.
 
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vol66 said:
My thoughts are that this year, because they are deciding host sites two weeks earlier than normal, the old math might not apply. Same with RPI and SOS, with every conference doing their own thing due to Covid, gonna be difficult to take normal metrics and apply them to this post season.
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This may be a good point
 
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vol66 said:
My thoughts are that this year, because they are deciding host sites two weeks earlier than normal, the old math might not apply. Same with RPI and SOS, with every conference doing their own thing due to Covid, gonna be difficult to take normal metrics and apply them to this post season.
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Maybe so. But in all honesty, I'm not sure 2-1 against a bad Mizzou team will be that impressive, which brings us to my 5-1 threshold.
 
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That is not to say it isn’t gonna be a grind with UK and Mizzou, but if the national media and the Committee could leave out a fourth SEC team in the top 8, they would. We gotta earn it the next two weekends.
 
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Tough night for our fellas. It’s baseball and it happens, especially at this time of year when it’s a grind.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned about our team this season is that they are resilient. I have faith that they will learn from this, flush it, and have an edge when they play Kentucky Thursday night. There’s very little time to dwell anyway.

I also think there were some positive takeaways from tonight. I thought McLaughlin and Sewell both pitched well enough to help down the stretch.

Anyways, bring on Kentucky!
 
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whobethis16 said:
Maybe so. But in all honesty, I'm not sure 2-1 against a bad Mizzou team will be that impressive, which brings us to my 5-1 threshold.
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I don’t disagree with your line of thought really, but ya know Texas and TCU play this weekend too, something has to give there too. We only control our destiny to a certain degree, what other teams do plays a part.

If it was a normal year, I don’t think the last two weekends shape up great as a top 8, given other team’s schedules but it is what it is.
 
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TN_gal said:
Tough night for our fellas. It’s baseball and it happens, especially at this time of year when it’s a grind.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned about our team this season is that they are resilient. I have faith that they will learn from this, flush it, and have an edge when they play Kentucky Thursday night. There’s very little time to dwell anyway.

I also think there were some positive takeaways from tonight. I thought McLaughlin and Sewell both pitched well enough to help down the stretch.

Anyways, bring on Kentucky!
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Good post here
 
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