USA Today Says Vols Gonna Lose in First Round

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VolunteerCeltic said:
How will Volnation react to a first round loss this tourney and what will their feelings be on Barnes?
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Idk, it's about the same to me. He can get you into the tourney every year, but rarely gets through the 1st weekend. It sucks, March Madness is much more fun when UT is in it.
 
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Volador said:
Let's hope Coach Barnes has a real big Bulletin Board in the Locker Room in Orlando, as this should fire up the boys enough to win their first game.

No. 13 Louisiana-Lafayette vs. No. 4 Tennessee
Even before losing point guard Zakai Zeigler to a season-ending injury, the Volunteers struggled mightily at times to run their half-court sets. Their defensive continuity has also been affected, which showed in their SEC tournament quarterfinal loss to Missouri. Enter the Ragin’ Cajuns, the Sun Belt champs with a variety of weapons like big man Jordan Brown (19.4 ppg, 8.7 rpg) and sharpshooter Greg Williams, a 40% marksman from three-point range. This looks like another chapter in the unfortunate postseason history of Tennessee coach Rick Barnes, who has had more than his share of disappointing finishes, including just one Sweet 16 appearance in the past four tournaments despite the Volunteers being no worse than a No. 5 seed.

Additional Rajun Cajun News for this season:

* Played only One top 25 team, and lost to Texas 72-100
* They played always tough teams like Centenerary, Harvud, Loyola, Louisiana Christian, Samford, McNeese and well, need I list more powerhouse basketball teams??
* Their 7 losses came on the road
* They played ZERO SEC or ACC Teams

We are not going to run away with any NCAA game however, I feel very confident that CRB can get the Vols successfully across the finish line for this first game.
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Then I'd bet the house on the Vols. That rag isn't worth the paper it's printed on....uh...wait....
 
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Every sports writer in the country is picking their upsets because people are filling out their brackets and everyone's looking for a few upsets they can pick to get an advantage in whatever bracket challenge they are in. These guys know the the upset pics are big click bait right now.
 
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We should feel fortunate to hopefully get a victory later today. I wouldn't go beating your chest asking for Duke yet.
 
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I can’t argue with the logic. Vols will have to do more in the paint and be more aggressive with rebounding.
 
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As bad as our Vols have been in the last month, there'll be no harm in losing to Duke. It won't be like the Loyola or Oregon St loss. There's nothing to lose on Saturday
 
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Sea Ray said:
As bad as our Vols have been in the last month, there'll be no harm in losing to Duke. It won't be like the Loyola or Oregon St loss. There's nothing to lose on Saturday
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rhat nothimg to lose attitude ,cpuld be what we need
 
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We sure as hell showed those rat bastards at USAToday that we are a force to be reckoned with as we dominated the entire game last night and never had to worry about the Rajun Cajuns defeating us.

Congrats though to Coach Barnes and the Vols. We will take any W, no matter what we have to do to earn it
 
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