Blame this loss on Bruce Pearl.

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For scheduling this game less than 3 days after returning from over a week in Maui. Team returned Fri. night around 9:00 PM and had to fly to Michigan and play this game against Oakland? Bad scheduling with nothing to gain and everything to lose.
 
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For scheduling this game less than 3 days after returning from over a week in Maui. Team returned Fri. night around 9:00 PM and had to fly to Michigan and play this game against Oakland? Bad scheduling with nothing to gain and everything to lose.

Yeah, Pearl made some bad coaching decisions tonight.
 
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I agree they may have been a little tired. However, if Tennessee's defense does not get better then can forget about the NCAA tournament. One thing about Pearl's teams is that they generally played good defense. I believe with Pearl Tennessee would have beat Memphis and won tonight. Just a little bit of defense would have won both games.
 
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I agree they may have been a little tired. However, if Tennessee's defense does not get better then can forget about the NCAA tournament. One thing about Pearl's teams is that they generally played good defense. I believe with Pearl Tennessee would have beat Memphis and won tonight. Just a little bit of defense would have won both games.

With Pearl this team would have lost to Memphis going away.
 
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Speaking of Pearl, that awkward moment when your local small town sportswriter claims UT should rehire Pearl in three years...
 
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Bruce would have beaten Memphis and Oakland.

Maybe duke even because odds are we have Scotty and Tobias still (maybe not Harris, but Scotty would've stayed)
 
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Pearl would not have waited a half to slow Memphis down. Tennessee would have one the Memphis game easy. I am for Martin, but they are going to have to get better on the defensive end to win. I may be wrong, but Martin's teams do not have a history of being good on defense.
 

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