The Official Tennessee vs. UMass Game Thread, 2:45pm ET, CBS

[7thgroupvolfan]

How some of you guys can say Mercer beating duke is bad for us is mind boggling.

 

[TennMan101]

Mercer starts 5 seniors, plays great D, and averages 9 3's a game. Horrible match up for us.

IMO we are better off playing Mercer.

 

[ttocswob]

Have Mercer on me!!

 

[LotteryPick]

How some of you guys can say Mercer beating duke is bad for us is mind boggling.

Please explain.

 

[Ace]

UT vs Mercer would be NIT rematch.

 

[ManchesterV]

IMO we are better off playing Mercer.

Agree, The seas are parting for us to go to the Sweet 16 if we can take advantage. No scenario makes Mercer a harder opponent CONSISTENTLY. On any given day yes, but 9 out of 10 times, give me Mercer.

 

[govols120]

Oh man that's massive. Take care of business today, higher seed win Sunday...and there we are.

 

[moodizzzzzzzzle]

How some of you guys can say Mercer beating duke is bad for us is mind boggling.

Agree. But don't look past UMASS

 

[7thgroupvolfan]

Please explain.

Are you implying that Mercer is a better team than Duke? They have far more talent and have arguably the best coach in college basketball.

 

[connor]

I know it's hard to not get hyped. Let's just take it one game at a time. We need to put uMass in it's place first.

 

[TennMan101]

Please explain.

Duke may be young but they have a roster FULL of AA's! Duke will beat Mercer 9 outta 10 times.

 

[LotteryPick]

Are you implying that Mercer is a better team than Duke? They have far more talent and have arguably the best coach in college basketball.

And Mercer is an experience team with a chip on their shoulder.

Duke does this all the time in March. I would much rather face them.

 

[UTBasketball2]

I'll take playing Mercer over Duke any day.

 

[patrick]

So will the Vols come out flat or not?

 

[7thgroupvolfan]

And Mercer is an experience team with a chip on their shoulder.

Duke does this all the time in March. I would much rather face them.

None of it matters if we don't take care of business today. Go Vols!

 

[ttocswob]

Agree, The seas are parting for us to go to the Sweet 16 if we can take advantage. No scenario makes Mercer a harder opponent CONSISTENTLY. On any given day yes, but 9 out of 10 times, give me Mercer.

AS they say, big "if."

 

[UT_Dutchman]

A win would be a good birthday present for me

Happy birthday Yankee_Vol! Go Big Orange!

 

[LotteryPick]

None of it matters if we don't take care of business today. Go Vols!

Very true.

 

[jordan4vols]

Does this push our start time back at all?

 

[patrick]

wow cant believe mercer beat duke.... Vols have a chance to make the sweet 16 and i cant believe i am saying that... wow.....

 

[ukvols]

We could lose to UMass. We could lose to Mercer.
But, there's no way I'd rather play Duke in Raleigh than Mercer.

 

[OrngeJuiceJones]

3:01 tip

 

[golfballs]

Must take care of business today! And not get ahead of ourselves!

 

[YankeeVol]

3:01 tip now

 

[volatil]

3:01 tip

Have to pick my kid up from school @3:30 central. Why does his mother insist he not ride the bus???