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What is it about Barnes’ coaching that you think prevents him from advancing far in the tournament? Scouting? Scheming? Adjustments? Motivation? Luck?
Look, the Vols are one of the 4 best teams in CBB.
Some of our fans are delusional blowhards that think every other team in the nation either sucks, or are overrated.
You don’t need to come here and defend your team.
They’re really good and could win it all.
I will agree that better teams can get beat when lesser teams go off. It happens.
A perfect example is Vanderbilt shooting 48% from three point range against us. Well above their ususal clip. They were drilling shots they almost never make. Hence the close game.
In both Vandy and Alabama, we shot 25% from behind he arc. Well below our norm. Hence the close games.
I think we can agree that good teams can have off nights, and good teams can get beat when opposing teams have hot shooting nights.
Yep , we play home & home , it will be decided. I’m expecting a split. Settled in the SEC tournament ?Looks like you’re counting games based on where teams were ranked at the time. So Louisville counts as a ranked win for you, but not for us (since they weren’t ranked when we beat them, but were when you beat them (and are now)).
The better indication is where teams are ranked now. In which case you’re 3-1, and we’re 2-1.
I understand doing it the other way (and thus counting wins over Auburn, who stinks, and Mississippi St, who may wind up being a bubble team), since it makes you look better.
All this to say it doesn’t matter. Things will hash out on the floor soon enough.
Sounds like the most likely scenario. Either of these teams is capable of beating anyone on a given night, so you never really know what will happen.Yep , we play home & home , it will be decided. I’m expecting a split. Settled in the SEC tournament ?
So you agree that Grant will return next year. If he isn’t a first round pic, he will return. Most on this board say he’s gone after this year.Believe me, we know what it feels like when another team grows beer muscles and becomes Golden State all of a sudden.
It's happened to Kentucky basketball teams since Rupp. Every. Single. Year.
Tennessee is a damn good basketball team. They beat our ass in Rupp last year. We are better than we were a year ago, but will need to be ready to play ball next Saturday or we could take a L. Tuesday against LSU too for that matter.
I have my doubts about Tennessee's chances of winning it all because of the lack of a 1st round NBA prospect, as Williams and Schofield are tweeners who are not listed in the 1st round of mocks at this time, but they're a very good college basketball team who can certainly beat the Cats.
If we play our A game, however, I like Kentucky every time.
I’m glad you agreed Kev, I thought I was in the twilight zone. Half the posters in here downplaying them will be the same ones starting clod threads if we lose next Saturday
There is no method to the madness of clod, but you can generally spot a member in any game thread or after we lose. They typically don’t post for four months and then randomly show back up. They are typically negative, in rare cases some are absolute homers that go way off the deep end after a loss.I thought that was the entire rationale for downplaying them to set up the CLOD talking points?
8-0Love watching Kentucky fans attempt to discuss basketball.
We're the basketball school now, nerds.
Agreed.We'll learn a lot about TN in the final stretch of the season. I believe they are a top 5 team, but I absolutely would not say that they are a better team than this Kentucky team.
It's important that we either win both of the games against them, or split and have UT lose at least one other game to finish their season. I'm pretty confident we wouldn't lose any other games, don't expect us to lose at home and our road games other than Ole Miss are cake walks.
Duke and Gonzaga have their one seeds more or less locked up, and UVA beat UNC on the road tonight. It's possible but I don't see those teams slipping up enough to fall out of their slots. Way I see it, were dueling with UT for a one seed. The games we play against them have massive implications
An excellent assessment.Just stop. They didn’t lose to Vanderbilt.
Every single team catches good breaks and bad breaks.
A lot of people think we caught a break with the no foul call on Keldon yesterday. I’ll still count it as a win.
You think you ruined our football season?Are we going to have to ruin your basketball season too?
Love watching Kentucky fans attempt to discuss basketball.
We're the basketball school now, nerds.
Love watching Kentucky fans attempt to discuss basketball.
We're the basketball school now, nerds.
womens? No disagreement hereLove watching Kentucky fans attempt to discuss basketball.
We're the basketball school now, nerds.
I'm curious as to how great of a basketball power the Vols will have NEXT year, the year after that, and after that....
Anyone can catch lightning in a bottle. SO let's just allow the Vol fans to come back next year when they stay ranked in the top 5 all year long and tell us then how much of a basketball school they are.
The sad thing about this year for them, is that 90% of the Vol fans either don't care or even know about the basketball team.
The vast majority of Vol fans would trade success in basketball for success in football in a heartbeat, just to get back to where they were, because they know basketball excellence will NEVER be sustained at that school.
NEVER.
The fans simply do not care as much, if AT ALL. Having been born and raised in TN, lived there all my life until this past year (THANK GOD I'M in the Bluegrass state now...)
I can say without a shadow of a doubt that whenever I speak to my Vol friends about their team this year, NOT A SINGLE ONE EVEN CARES - much less knows a single player on that team. Vol fans openly admit that they don't like or even care about basketball. FEW will, and you only hear from them when they have a good team.
The ONLY Vol fan that I know that even remotely cares about basketball called in abject excitement when UT made the elite eight years ago..... I was happy for him, and then he excitedly asked me (because, as memory serves me right, UK made it too) "how many times has Kentucky been to the elite eight?
ehhh ..... hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe
the response on the other end (after, i **think** at THAT time, I told him it was 32, or 33? hell, I've lost count long ago) was this :
***crickets chirping***
then Perry told me "Well, DAMN, man. I sound like a ****ing retard. But I love this! I want to see us get back here! "
... and I magnanimously encouraged his future hopes, and said "I'm glad for you, my old friend."
hahahahahahaha! LMFAO
So Tennessee fans have a really rough road to hoe.
They now suck so bad in football they are living on vapors from the past, AND everything else is ignored.
SAD
That's just the truth, Vol fans, and you know it. Now, back to your regularly scheduled program.
I for one, enjoy the fact that they have become better in hoops. UK always does better when the SEC is strong, and how can you have a rival if they don't actually WIN every now and then?
(I'm looking at YOU Card fans....)
what a rambling bunch of bs
Nothing but 100% truth. The vast majority of Tennessee fans dont give a horses ass for basketball, and the program will never be a consistent force - and you know it.
Deny it all you want. Football is all that MOST of the Vol fans care about. Go back to your board and talk basketball and see where it gets you.
OH, that's right. Not very far.
You come to OUR board wanting to talk basketball.
it figures.
what a tool you are
lol.....we are selling out every game
With Josiah James coming in and if Tennessee gets Kessler to reclassify (outside short of even getting him) Tennessee will be as good or better next year.But enjoy your elite eight appearance. I sincerely hope you guys can make it back there this year, because if not this year .... when?
Nothing but 100% truth. The vast majority of Tennessee fans dont give a horses ass for basketball, and the program will never be a consistent force - and you know it.
Deny it all you want. Football is all that MOST of the Vol fans care about. Go back to your board and talk basketball and see where it gets you.
OH, that's right. Not very far.
You come to OUR board wanting to talk basketball.
it figures.
what a tool you are
No matter how bad our football is, we still beat UK.There's no fixing your stupid. You are the poster child for the modern Vol fan. Football is borked & now you're trying to hang your hat on being a basketball blue blood.
Like I said, SAD.
No matter how bad our football is, we still beat UK.
Cool. We’ve lost 2 games. You won’t get the calls like you did tonight at UT.No matter how historically significant your basketball team is, it still got its ass stomped by UK.
Cool. We’ve lost 2 games. You won’t get the calls like you did tonight at UT.
KY 52 - Bone/Williams 51
Was looking at SEC standings on espn.com and noticed that Tennessee has played a whopping TWO ranked teams ALL SEASON in which they are 1-1 in both polls. Kentucky is 4-1 and 5-1 respectively in playing ranked teams in the AP and Coaches polls. Yew-T is unproven, overconfident, and going to get punched in the mouth next Saturday night