The Official #6 Tennessee @ #7 Texas A&M Game Thread, 12:00 PM ET

[therealitytheory]

First 4 minutes we had to weather the storm and we did. Gutsy effort, fantastic win.

 

[Other_Guy]

Vols were lucky the Aggies missed a lot of opportunities. Aggies were lucky they happened to catch fire shooting FTs.
This feels like the best "finishing" Barnes team. Great game.

 

[VolCalls]

Not sure what you mean by this. It’s OK to point out when a player is not having a good game and needs to step it up or sit. Saying a player is garbage is a different story.

Exactly my point.

 

[hUTch2002]

I love disappointing ESPN, Adams, and A&M’s thick-neck coach

I hope they all pick us to lose to Bama.

 

[fear]

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[Houstonvol1]

Stat guy Miyakawa has ZZ as the third best player in the country.

 

[HighWaterVol]

That was a big-time win. Keep winning our way into a one seed please.

 

[Sudden Impact]

Aggie coach looks like a dude in a severe midlife crisis trying to form a start-up tech company.

Not anymore than Pearl, Oats or several others in/out of our league. Barnes demeanor used to be just as bad at Texas. Now He is a cool operator, and a surgeon with the Refs.

 

[Clad in Big Orange]

Great, tough win in a rock fight. No milli vanilli down the stretch which I thought would kill us. Absolutely huge shots and free throws made by Z and Gainey and Lanier.

 

[TrapVol]

Exactly my point.

Fair enough. Maybe I missed it, but I don’t remember much of the latter.

 

[Voljayton]

Gainey to Taylor

 

[LibertyVolance]

Huge win on the road against a tough opponent and horrible officiating. The 3 pointer by Ziegler at the end was the dagger through Aggies' heart. Clutch to the max!

 

[therealitytheory]

To his credit Gainey came on strong in the last 6 minutes. Big part of us winning for sure.

 

[hUTch2002]

Idk how it happened but great win. Our offense isn’t pretty and I guess it’s time for me to accept that fact. We will have to win ugly and w defense.

Also, Gainey hit a few big buckets, too.

Our offense isn’t pretty when we stand around. When we move and pass the ball we actually have good offense. We’re top 30 nationally in efficiency, which is top 10%, so we’re not at all a bad offense, just frustrating at times.

 

[patrick]

Chaz w 30

ZZ with 16

They did that with Igor on the bench for the last 7 minutes or so.

Go Vols.

 

[Redheads]

Gutsy gutsy win. Everything going their way. Terrible calls. Found a way. Ziegler is pure heart, Lanier carried us first half. I hate these teams that have guards who just put their head down and fly into the lane, totally out of control, and jump into someone to get a call. They are the worst foul shooting team in our league and were unconscious today. Still we found a way. Sure would like to see our bigs get involved a little more. We could really use someone who can post up and make a couple of moves and score a bit. We need something besides the lob dunk from those guys. Still, they hung in there with all the rough stuff underneath and didn’t let them manhandle us down there.

 

[OneManGang]

That 3 on the inbound by ZZ was epic.

 

[Woodlawn VOL]

A big road win today. Great game Vols, the Barnes doubters crowd is silenced again. GBO!

 

[VolCalls]

To his credit Gainey came on strong in the last 6 minutes. Big part of us winning for sure.

Senior leadership in the backcourt is always huge in March. Glad we have four of them back there.

 

[TheMookieMonster]

Igor never even set foot back on the court after he picked up his 4th foul. Nice job by Rick seeing this just wasn’t his game and the smaller lineup was more effective.

 

[BernardKingGOAT]

Especially the 3 of 4 College Gameday folks picking A&M over us.

A&M at home.

 

[Doctrippin]

Best road game of the season. Can't wait to see them in Nashville

 

[Clad in Big Orange]

Huge win on the road against a tough opponent and horrible officiating. The 3 pointer by Ziegler at the end was the dagger through Aggies' heart. Clutch to the max!

ZZ channeled his inner Lamonte Turner on that shot!

 

[Just a VolinTears]

Not to be taken lightly were Mashack's two tip-ins

 

[patrick]

Gainey to Taylor

Love this.