I want this game because I want to see the Vols cut down the nets and I want to get the tourney title monkey off our backs (and Barnes’s), but I recognize today doesn’t make or break things one way or the other.
What concerns me is that A&M has shot over 50% from 3 for each of their three tourney wins. That’s nuts. Are they in a lather? They absolutely drug Arkansas, and the Hogs were a hot team themselves. Auburn getting hot from 3 sank us in 2019. Do we have the defense to avoid that happening with A&M? On paper we do, but as everyone knows, games especially in March are not played on paper. Teams get hot, upsets happen, and the Aggies may have to have this one to get in.
I’m expecting a close one. Hope we have it in us at the end.