The Official #6 Tennessee @ #9 Arizona Game Thread, 10:30 PM ET, ESPN2

[I4Vols]

Great effort made the game close except tonight the Wildcats outplayed the Volunteers.

You watched a different game than the rest of us

 

[AthensVol2007]

Is Barnes senile!!?? You bitch with 6 seconds left when a game is out of reach but bite your tongue when it took place.

 

[SonOfGodVolforlife]

Holy crap!!! Tennessee shouldn't feel bad about losing this one. They played better and are better than Aruzona. Firm believer in you shouldn't talk about the refs because better teams overcome it but maaaan. This was bad.

This is one of those games you can absolutely say the officials won the game for Arizona. Trash from the start to end!!

 

[berryvol]

 

[Switch 625]

Barnes up from his nap?

 

[camp_steveo]

Vescovi was fouled. Game affected by no-call.

 

[sechamp2012]

Players got mugged I’d never play a home & Home with this bunch again the fix was in
Vegas or the home crowd got to the refs SAD for B ball fans

 

[RavinDave]

I stand by what I said about this being the most poorly officiated game I've seen

I can say the same thing

 

[The Dog]

Well, not the best officiated game, I have ever seen. Whoever said that Barnes should light up the officials like he does his players, I agree

 

[C-south]

What the hell does this mean?

If you consistently miss wide open shots that aren’t fouls wtf are are you crying about?

 

[berryvol]

Is Barnes senile!!?? You bitch with 6 seconds left when a game is out of reach but bite your tongue when it took place.

Stfu you have serious mental issues if this is your complaint tonight

 

[Putbacks]

Game changers:
Officials:Verne Harris, John Higgins, Tony Padilla

 

[patrick]

Is Barnes senile!!?? You bitch with 6 seconds left when a game is out of reach but bite your tongue when it took place.

Amen brudder.

 

[GAVol]

Santi didn’t help falling away. But either way should have been UT foul shots because Key got hammered

The worst part was the ref standing there with his hands up as if he saw nothing.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

Missed two egregious fouls right there. It’s been horrible all night, but that was insane.

Where’s Barnes? I think I’m more mad about his lack of standing up for the team than most anything else.

He's chewing them out right now Armchair Coach.

 

[GBO18]

We really need some rebounders to emerge.

 

[The Tall Gguy]

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[Larkin]

This game was ruined by officiating

 

[tnvols72]

Barnes called a timeout to tell them to stand there. pathetic

 

[mr.checkerboards]

Arizona was not better

 

[Creeker]

This is not a deep run TN team, they will be a first weekend out

Played a true road game against a top 10 team to the wire in a game that wasn’t remotely called even and this is your take?

 

[zjcvols]

There’s not a fix guys. Unfortunately college basketball officiating is that bad. It’s why the sport is unwatchable and why ratings are at an all time low for college basketball.

Referees have ruined the sport.

 

[The Tall Gguy]

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[Freak]

The worst part was the ref standing there with his hands up as if he saw nothing.

Yep.

 

[turbovol]

We're always going to struggle against good teams when Vescovi is effectively defended and/or has a poor game, like tonight. We don't have enough
consistent scoring to make up the difference. We were in it and then he took that bad 3 off the inbounds pass--shot didn't even come close--and that mostly sealed our fate.