The Official Tennessee vs. #15 Kentucky Game Thread, 1:00 PM ET, CBS

[BreatheUT]

Have seriously never seen a kid regress like Bowden has in one year.

Bowden has this problem every year it's just we had other players that could pick up the slack and make him come off the bench.

 

[VolsAgainstTheWorld15]

I don’t care what he’s done. He’s talented on a team with a bunch of talented players. He’s not a no name.

Smh...the point is he is a role player who went off today. That has happened to us way too much over the years.

 

[Doctrippin]

It would take a SEC tourney miracle to get to the dance now.

Will we even make the SEC tourny at this point?

 

[VolGee4]

Nah bro I am here every time to congratulate.

You cut it to 5 before starting the foulfest. Not to the wire.

You better be glad Bowden missed the three to cut it to 2. I guess that doesn’t count.

 

[Skullbone]

Pons, Fulkerson, and Vescovi will slay it next year. This season is just sharpening the iron for next year.

 

[Vol49er]

Defense. He shuts down Maxey. He’s the best perimeter defender on the team.

Maxey shot 6/13 and had 15 points. He is a real good defender usually but didn’t defend well today and his defensive contributions are often negated by his offensive ineptitude. When he’s doing neither well it really hurts, evidenced today by his team worst +\- today, -16. Can’t have that from our one senior leader still standing

 

[VolArmy74]

Bowden isn’t the reason this team has been losing. Severe lack of depth and any contribution from the bench is what’s killing us.

If he shoots 40 percent we probably have 4 more wins this year, including today.

 

[turnuptheVOLtage]

Bowden turned the ball over about 4 straight times around the 7:00-5:00 marks. He certainly has a large part in this loss. Boy we are hard to watch... just 0 sustained offensive threats.

 

[MoCo_Vol]

8 of the 13. We led by 5 when you started the fouling.

Why we got a Kentucky fan in here?

 

[InVOLuntary]

8 of the 13. We led by 5 when the refs got scared and thought we were too close and called fouls on virtually every position to insure my would win.

Fyp

 

[tnvols72]

JJJ was injured in his last two games with the groin injury, probably. Do you think he’s generally less effective than Plavsic, Pember, or Gaines? Or heck, Johnson?

Are you saying Tn wins this game if JJJ was playing ?

 

[Mikevol1964]

You have a weird definition of to the wire

Bowden missed a three to cut it to 2 with 2:30 to play. May not be to the wire but made Kentucky earn it.

 

[turnuptheVOLtage]

If Vescovi hadn’t made 2 miracle 3s, we would have lost by 15+

 

[GBO18]

Vescovi dishing it to the players next year will be fun.

 

[VolGee4]

Smh...the point is he is a role player who went off today. That has happened to us way too much over the years.

I’m not trying to be an ass, but UK just doesn’t play no names. It’s like Jalen Johnson hitting 3 threes in the Mizzou game. It happens. Sometimes your defense focuses on a couple of guys, and another guy steps up.

 

[LucidZ]

Didn't come away with the win, but I definitely enjoyed some moments of this game. Fulkerson, Pons, Vescovi played their butts off.

 

[ttocswob]

Will we even make the SEC tourny at this point?

Now that would be a real choke job, LOL.

 

[vavolfan6]

Considering our subpar team shot so poorly and almost won....I even think less than I already did about Kentucky. They are straight up horrible considering all the talent they continually get. Their fanbase should be ashamed...they cheat and still suck

 

[Dallasbowlin]

Why we got a Kentucky fan in here?

He’s cool. I mistakenly thought he was someone else earlier lol

 

[ndubvols]

Go look at his numbers in conference play. Our “star” player is very much the reason.

He was 5-12 for 16 points and 9 rebounds today. Sure, he could’ve made a few more plays but hardly the reason we lost.

3 Points from our bench today... Outside of our top 4 guys (5 w/JJJ) we get absolutely nothing game in and game out.

 

[tnvols72]

8 of the 13. We led by 5 when you started the fouling.

We led by 5 when the ghost fouls started.... never mind the travel and the ghost foul on Tn player when he never touched him fyp

 

[golfballs]

We still have our hardest games ahead of us. But it doesn’t seem like our trajectory is reversing course. Losing JJJ during this stretch really hurts. This is the point we desperately need to start turning it around

 

[Mikevol1964]

Why we got a Kentucky fan in here?

Would you want to be on a Kentucky board?

 

[VolGee4]

Bowden isn’t the reason this team has been losing. Severe lack of depth and any contribution from the bench is what’s killing us.

If Bowden was shooting better and more consistent, we could have won another game or two. But the bench doesn’t help either.

 

[JCP201]

It was fun for a little bit. Next year we are going to be great.

 

[ndubvols]

If he shoots 40 percent we probably have 4 more wins this year, including today.

Shot 41% today...