I've taken it better than a lot of years....Honestly we went further than I thought we would. I would not have bet a dime we would make it out of the Sweet 16. I said back in January we have 2 good players and several ok players. Against Purdue one of our good players went MIA and our so so players didn't/couldn't/wouldn't take up the slack.

The thing I hate the most is not seeing DK do his thing wearing orange. At UT we just don't see the likes of him but once in a blue moon.

She's good alright.

Postgame killed us 3 out of 4 tournament losses.....Michigan...Oregon St....Purdue yesterday. We don't have a counter in the middle against good post teams.

According to another site, she would have been allowed to stay on one more year if she had been willing to make major staff changes; in other words, get rid of her husband. She declined, according to the report and it was a mutual parting of ways.

If that is true, she did not want to keep the job imo.

That is 100 percent false...She had zero options...she was fired.

That crap came from a article that Maria wrote on 247 and she didn't have a clue....she retracted it quick fast and in a hurry.

ESPN gurus this morning showed a lot of highlights on Burns and talked a lot about how good he is....They also said Burns has the best ability to handle Edey that's in the tournament. Figures!!

ESPN basketball gurus said this morning that Bama was the team left that could beat UConn...

I can?t agree with this. I don?t see a conspiracy in this. I think that Edey is officiated differently, but if Tennessee had been more productive in the 10-15 foot range and at the FT line, we would be thinking about NC State right now.

 jmo

Yep...Sad.

Wonder why we didn't front Edey...Playing at his back wasn't and didn't work.

We knew Edey was going to get his points...but we needed to limit the others. Also we said others had to step up for us to advance....We had 1 step up for the challenge and others did not. Thus we are going home.

He disappears against physical teams....He becomes a pus.

If I was Barnes....I would replace him tomorrow.

You can blame the officials, and I admit that the calls weren?t reciprocal on both ends, but go look at the Tennessee shot chart from 10-15 feet (most were wide open looks). Make half of those and Tennessee wins by 10 most likely.

Yep...and our paint points was awful. They pretty much doubled us up there....

Purdue shot 33 FTs......UT shot 11. Bullshizzle.

Maybe Edey will catch what Vescovi was out with.

As long as none of ours do.

I think you have to take away the players not named Edey. Smother them when they have the basketball, kind of like we did with both Texas and Creighton. Then hope that you can score enough to win.

Tennessee?s ball pressure has been a thing of real beauty the past two games. Keep on keeping on.

Agree with this...

And try to keep Edey from getting the ball in the low post....If he does then don't foul let him get his points. Try our best to keep him out of the paint....Need to glue guard their PG...he had 15 assists last night and averaging close to 11 per game.

Laughed hard 

Purdue will be in the 1 and 1 before they get off the team bus.

I read this morning there will be no Big 10 or SEC officials doing our games.

Great D...and made some shots.

Do the come from a one bid league?

Either Bama or Clemson is going to the Final Four....$hit 

Excuse me while I get some dust out of my eyes...

Good.

https://www.si.com/fannation/ufl/news/houston-roughnecks-name-jarrett-guarantano-starting-quarterback-mark-thompson-injured

Kentucky just hired the Virginia Tech women's coach. Things are getting tougher for the Lady Vols.

That would be correct. Damn good hire by KY.

 

Kellie is now 12-37 against ranked teams in her 5 years at UT. That can't be excused or defended.

Great....And man he doesn't look 242 lbs.

Jackson saved Kellies job for another year by coming back. She missed 8 games early due to injury and we looked like crap....but won enough to save Kellies job when she came back. Stop and think what we would have looked like this year without Jackson. Ugly.