The Official #7 Tennessee vs. Alabama Game Thread, 6:00 PM ET, ESPN2

[Lankykong]

Our effort has been worse.

Disagree slightly. At least we dove for a few balls. Refs haven’t called an offensive foul yet

 

[VolGee4]

Typical to how games are officiated...

 

[cbcollins]

im ok with Barnes' technical. i think we will see different refs in the second half.

 

[VOLnVANDYland]

WAKE UP CALL!!!!!!

 

[VolsSportsFan]

Time to stop reading the press about yourself and show up the second half.

 

[Cdywolfe]

Why is it that we seem to be the only damn team in the league that can’t even get calls at home?

 

[DNBVOL]

Just god awful. Literally could lose to anyone else and I wouldn't care as much smfh

 

[87&91ALUM]

Well, Bama came to play, refs crap as usual, and Tennessee shooting bricks. Gonna be a loud UT locker room. Fire them up coach. Pons sorely missed in this game.

 

[Johnnyreb#VFL]

The noobs predicting an 80-50 blowout for UT have been exposed

 

[MoCo_Vol]

Ugly half, Bama getting to play more physical than we are and we’re shooting cold.

 

[CAVPUT]

Welp...that was a forgettable half of basketball. Something seems to happen to the orange when they see red.

 

[Lankykong]

I think Barnes learned from Turner. Better to kill the officials now rather than at the end of the game

 

[VolsAgainstTheWorld15]

Refs: bad. Team performance: bad. Result: Bama leads by 2 at the half. Gotta figure some things out in the locker room.

 

[Bigorange123]

These refs are terrible

I can’t wait for Refalytics Judd's to break this down on basilio.
still gotta play well enuff to take refs out of the game.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

Disagree slightly. At least we dove for a few balls. Refs haven’t called an offensive foul yet

Our shooting has been awful. Some is Alabama's D, but many were just bricks. And the FT shooting as well.

 

[Creeker]

This game is mostly on us, specifically the offense end, but that last possession was freaking completely pathetic by the refs. #3 pushed off Bailey with both arms on the screen and elbowed him twice in back while they were under the basket. All the while with a ref on the baseline right in front of it.

 

[K-town Vol Fan]

Thats probably as bad as we can play and were only down 2. We got this

 

[VolMarine1371]

im ok with Barnes' technical. i think we will see different refs in the second half.

Hope!!

 

[marvin616]

Bailey fighting pretty hard for a guard under the basket. He's my favorite Vol so far this season.

 

[Hurley Mooncalf]

Even though we're the #7 team in the country, the refs are treating us like were some rec league team that rolled in. We cant get a call and we get clean blocks and get called for a foul. It's horrible officiating.

 

[Ernest T. Vol]

What was the tech about?

 

[VolGee4]

The problem I have is they don’t reward good defense. They called a couple of fouls on us when we didn’t initiate the contact.

 

[VOLnVANDYland]

Switches and cant stay in front of ball handlers, blow byes to the rim have frikin killed us.......

 

[VolArmy74]

Hopefully Springer is okay and we can get some minutes out of Pons and Vescovi there. We had poor effort at times. When you combine that with officials having a really really bad night, missing very very obvious calls, it hurts. A close game means the refs have an outsized presence. Alabama has about 8 points directly off really bad calls. They should have stopped the game on one of those Petty elbows to check if it was a flagrant and the refs didn't even call a foul.

 

[ndubvols]

Need to get it together on the offensive end. Missed pons/springer and Santi for a lot of the half. Should get better once pons and santi get back. Hopefully springer is ok.

Refs are trash. Still not sure how the refs missed that travel call halfway through the half . That would’ve been called in 5 year old church league