The Official #9 Tennessee vs. #5 Kentucky Game Thread, 3:30 PM ET, ESPN

[YankeeVol]

 

[cwbytruckers]

One of the worst officiated games I've ever watched. Biased announcers were absolute trash as well. Happy for our guys. I'm sure this W feels 10x better knowing the refs were trying to steal it away.

The announcers werent biased. They praised Tennessee a lot. Said multiple times they were final four good.

 

[Ernest T. Vol]

The offensive foul on Vescovi is THE WORST CALL i have ever seen in basketball. THE WORST.

 

[chuckb1448]

I appreciate The Volunteers because they have given me a reason to smoke some carne asada Tomorrow.... I'm proud of our Men.... play Hard and face Adversity

 

[Switch 625]

I haven't been keeping up, but why aren't we in the convo for a #1 seed? We'd have the same record as Kentucky if we won tomorrow

We have the better resume.

 

[Vol49er]

Man, I’ve got a headache. Worth it though. That was awesome.

 

[K-town Vol Fan]

The announcers werent biased. They praised Tennessee a lot. Said multiple times they were final four good.

Yeah I didnt think we're biased at all. Jimmy Dykes has been high on us all year.

 

[Putbacks]

The announcers werent biased. They praised Tennessee a lot. Said multiple times they were final four good.

But they did keep attaching the “National Championship”possibility to Kentucky more than once…

 

[walkenvol]

Barnes haters going to have a rough night sleep.

They’ve all but completely disappeared - what a shame!

 

[orangemadam]

Officiating wasn't good, but they did call that last foul on Tshiebwe, which may have iced the win

 

[Volunteer_Kirby]

The announcers werent biased. They praised Tennessee a lot. Said multiple times they were final four good.

"This is one of the toughest calls of the year."

Yeah no bias. At all.

 

[wmcovol]

I care if we win tomorrow but beating Kentucky twice in a season is as satisfying as it gets...win or lose tomorrow.

I wanna win a SEC championship. No co-championship.

 

[DeepSpringsVol]

Congrats on the win.

Sending UK fans home earlier than expected never gets old.

Only sad part is Tampa is so far away not reasonable to buy their Sunday session tickets. Nashville or Atlanta and we would load that place. The tournament championship game shouldn't have 10,000 empty seats.

 

[VolFreakJosh]

Andddd there it is

 

[Putbacks]

"This is one of the toughest calls of the year."

Yeah no bias. At all.

Wheeler about dislocated Scovi’s shoulder on that play.

 

[7maxims]

I need some Barnes owns Cal Memes like oxygen right now lol

 

[tnvols72]

Starting to feel better about Tn playing good ball away from Knoxville

 

[volsagain]

Never seen a bigger KY love fest from the announcers. Suck it Ky.

I come straight out of my seat on the charger call , after Viscovi was fouled twice before the spin .

 

[vegasvolfan]

Wish I could say I felt good about this one but I don’t. With that said… I do feel like if we manage a win tomorrow that we’ll cut down the nets on Sunday.

Felt the same way but the Vols keep surprising me.

 

[VOLED]

I come straight out of my seat on the charger call , after Viscovi was fouled twice before the spin .

The refs gave it their best shot, but it wasn't enough.

 

[Volfaninfl2]

Cal really wanted that game. He was as active as I’ve ever seen him.

Yeah, and I got sick of seeing him.

 

[Schasz]

With a win in the Championship game. UT should be at least a 2!

 

[peerless98]

So proud we once again held on to win in spite of Pat Adams valiant attempt to stick it to UT. I hate to call out bull crap refs when we lose, but have no problem with it when we prevail. This was a terribly one sided game. Has anyone on this board ever seen a player control foul on a guy spinning in his own cylinder and contacting a player with his shoulder blade, ever? This call is in the top two of all time with the call a few weeks ago he made in crunch time on the Santi/Fulky being contacted play. Adams owns them both. Not to mention his complete dismisal of the smack that Uros got early in the game. I cannot believe the other two refs confirmed this call today. They do not get off scot free either.

Does anybody know if there is any truth to the urban legend a coach can blackball an official? Heard it all my life, but never seen it documented.

I hope he doesn't get another chance tomorrow.

 

[VolInNW]

I hoped I was wrong. And I was. Won despite Pat Adams.

Nicely done!!

 

[n_huffhines]

The Vescovi rebound needs to be on a poster. IDC that he only made 1 FT