The Official #5 Tennessee vs. #22 Ole Miss Game Thread, 6:00 PM ET, SEC Network

[GiveHim6InSC]

Looks like the early season gauntlet paid off

 

[Snowball!]

Go Big Orange

 

[Lukusw]

Side quest question: why are they called "the blue hairs" (i.e. the old ticket holders who don't cheer loud or stand during games)?

 

[omghulkhands]

Didn't get to see the game. Saw the stats, but what's with Knecht? Still sick? Injured?

Didn’t need him. He was fine.

 

[DC_Vol]

Stat of the night: 47 to 24 rebounds for us

Player of the night: Mashack (yes, Aidoo was great and ZZ controlled the 2nd half but man it felt like Mashack was the guy that made all the right plays--end of the half 3 was killer)

Pleasant surprise of the night: Barnes called a timeout to stop a run!

Agree…both of them!

 

[Special Ed]

chris beard isnt used to being on the receiving end of a beat down.

His girlfriend may already be at Walgreens buying a neck brace.

 

[JCP201]

Didn't get to see the game. Saw the stats, but what's with Knecht? Still sick? Injured?

He contributed but everyone did--especially Aidoo.

 

[VolBalls33]

Unfortunately had to work and just looked over the box score. Impressed by the score!! GBO! Tried to watch it after work but work at a bar downtown Nashville so couldn't help but see the score. Just curious only 8 with a blow out? Good problem to have to curious why no one else played late? Either way was surprised in a good way to see the final score.

 

[Namorto1]

Gotta give the coaches some credit. That was a great scouting report and we picked Ole Miss' defense apart, with Aidoo rolling to the rim off those screens. Zeigler delivered over and over again. Aidoo & Awaka just dominated and overall we crushed them on the boards. UT had 72 shot attempts vs Ole Miss with 54. Game over....no one is going to overcome that. Once we started making shots the lead just grew.

And defensively we took away what Ole Miss wanted to do over 40 minutes. Murray played well in the 1st half but was very quiet in the 2nd half. Their two best players, Murrell and Flanigan were pedestrian the entire game. As good as we looked, we still have upside.

 

[Ernest T. Vol]

Didn't get to see the game. Saw the stats, but what's with Knecht? Still sick? Injured?

He got two early fouls and then a third ticky tack call that limited his minutes.

 

[aaronvol]

That game was really disappointing. For Ole Miss.

 

[esarmstrong]

Side quest question: why are they called "the blue hairs" (i.e. the old ticket holders who don't cheer loud or stand during games)?

Because that's the color that hair turns after a few weeks when older grey-haired folks try to dye their hair with a darker color. Maybe there have been improvements made in hair dye formulas since I was a young 'un but that was they way it was in the late 20th century.

 

[Lukusw]

Because that's the color that hair turns after a few weeks when older grey-haired folks try to dye their hair with a darker color. Maybe there have been improvements made in hair dye formulas since I was a young 'un but that was they way it was in the late 20th century.

Thanks for the info! Side quest complete.

 

[CAVPUT]

Didn’t need him. He was fine.

Thanks. Just shocked to see 19 minutes and 8 points. Almost as unreal as Aidoo's stat line. What got into him? Geez.

 

[SoullessGinger32_]

If we stay healthy SEC better strap up!

 

[CAVPUT]

He got two early fouls and then a third ticky tack call that limited his minutes.

Not to be that guy, but when does our superstar player get some home cookin' from the refs? Seems every other program gets favorable whistles at home, but not UT? Wonder who the refs were?

 

[K-town Vol Fan]

Great win and great performance GBO

 

[Ernest T. Vol]

Not to be that guy, but when does our superstar player get some home cookin' from the refs? Seems every other program gets favorable whistles at home, but not UT? Wonder who the refs were?

I would say this game was called ok, just Knecht got the one bad call. Rick worked the ref on that 3rd foul...Bob and Bert sort of said the ref knew he had made a mistake.

 

[VolGee4]

Something been keeping up with. Tennessee only managed to get 80 plus points in a game 9 times last year.
Tennessee this year, already has reached the 80 point mark 8 times this year. Team still has slumps, but the offense is light years better than last year.

We are 25th in offensive efficiency and 2nd in defense. Getting to 20th on offense puts you in national title type team.

 

[Namorto1]

Thanks. Just shocked to see 19 minutes and 8 points. Almost as unreal as Aidoo's stat line. What got into him? Geez.

Zeigler set him up the entire game. He caught the ball and dunked it or had something close to the rim. Had a couple nice post ups too. When Ole Miss went small, Barnes had them force it in the paint whether it was for Aidoo or Awaka. Check out Awaka's line....9 pts in only 11 minutes. Lastly when we missed shots, we got 19 offensive rebounds. ZZ, the rebounding disparity, we shared the ball well (25 assists on 34 buckets), great contribution from Mashack off the bench and finally making our open shots in the 2nd half led to the result.

Let's go take of Miss. St. in Starkville.

 

[Voltopia]

We are 25th in offensive efficiency and 2nd in defense. Getting to 20th on offense puts you in national title type team.

Absolutely. No team with an offensive efficiency outside the top 40 has won a national title in I forget how many years. You have to be able to score. And if you can defend? House money.

 

[BruisedOrange]

Side quest question: why are they called "the blue hairs" (i.e. the old ticket holders who don't cheer loud or stand during games)?

It started with a Parisian hairdresser in the 1920s who liked to make a big entrance. His blue convertible was sparkling but he thought his Russian wolfhound’s coat looked dull, so a pharmacist told him to add a few drops of bluing (a laundry solution used to brighten dingy whites) to the rinse water the next time he bathed the dog.

Actually, gray- and white-haired women were already adding a drop of bluing or indigo to a shampoo’s final rinse. Commercially made blue rinses became available in the 1930s. One was supposed to choose the appropriate tint based on hair color (iron gray, silver, white, etc.), but it was still easy to overdo it. “The solution was too strong. The blue stayed,” explained a woman whose appearance on a Chapel Hill, NC, street generated a 1933 news story.

[from an article in Bust magazine]

 

[aWhiteLoftonChism]

and JJJ and SV.

How did JJJ & Santi have off nights? They were absolutely suffocating on defense and stuffed the stat sheet on offense. They do all of that while coaching on the floor and being terrific leaders.

 

[CAVPUT]

Zeigler set him up the entire game. He caught the ball and dunked it or had something close to the rim. Had a couple nice post ups too. When Ole Miss went small, Barnes had them force it in the paint whether it was for Aidoo or Awaka. Check out Awaka's line....9 pts in only 11 minutes. Lastly when we missed shots, we got 19 offensive rebounds. ZZ, the rebounding disparity, we shared the ball well (25 assists on 34 buckets), great contribution from Mashack off the bench and finally making our open shots in the 2nd half led to the result.

Let's go take of Miss. St. in Starkville.

Appreciate that. Really looking forward to seeing this one on YouTube after Freak gets it up.

 

[Kicker82]

Hopefully this team continues to get better and better as the season goes. It may be the team that has the best chance to make a final four that we’ve had in a while.