The Official #3 Tennessee vs. #11 Michigan NCAA Tournament Game Thread, 5:50 PM ET, CBS

[djohnnyg]

Barnes has a long history of choking in the tourney. It's just a fact. Always favored too.

 

[C-south]

The answer…we don’t have a dominant big man.

I love ZZ but I think Hatfield and Aidoo should've had more minutes in this game.

 

[johnboyhunter]

Tennessee athletics in a nutshell

Huh? You do know a lot of SEC schools didn’t even get to the tournament. We won the SEC Championship. Women are doing good. Football is Up.

Why don’t you go root for another school?

 

[D3Athlete]

Gotta make open shots. Never fails we go 14-24 from 3, then 2-18 next game. Btw this where the committee putting us a 3 bites us in the ass. Especially when the 11 seed in the region is top 25/30 metric wide makes it even worse.

 

[tnvols72]

I like Barnes but the facts are the facts. His teams don’t do well in NCAA tournament.

but you was ok when they won the 1st game

 

[Fatdad32]

We had open looks just didn’t hit any in last 10 mins and our defense was as bad as could be. Just bad. Great teams would not have lost to this Michigan team.

 

[utvolpj]

Give me a break Barnes has been losing games in the tournament he had no business losing his entire career even at Texas get your head out of the sand

You know he had gone to a f4 right?

 

[Pepe_Silvia]

Good season, winning the SEC tourney was big, but these early NCAA tourney exits are crushing.

 

[lilesrt]

Team played hard, got a SEC tourney win, but the media and NCAA did not want TN to win this game!

 

[Voluble2]

UT basketball --- they always play well enough to get you interested, and then let you down in the end.

When is the last time we played up to expectations in the NCAA tournament?

 

[TheMookieMonster]

Typical March for Tennessee

 

[EZE]

They made shots because they got to the rim.

Not on all of them… but on too many for sure

 

[MoCo_Vol]

When officials let teams hold & grab Santi to keep him from getting clean looks we lose. Texas and Michigan both did it.

 

[Namorto1]

A blind hook shot

That was the shot that changed the game IMO. Lucky but he made it.

 

[SonOfGodVolforlife]

2-18 from 3 and allowed MI to shoot around 50%. That was killer. Getting turnovers kept TN in the game.

This. We didn’t make 3s. We had the team to make the deep run but our guards didn’t bring their offense today except chandler.
This one sucks,losing to that Michigan team is cringe.

 

[volfan4lyfe]

Maybe he should've had the guys double team their big dude as soon as he touched it?

lol, why? So their more talented guards could score at Will from three?

 

[johngunn44]

lack of subbing in the 2nd half killed us. we lost our legs late. also they took Vescovi out of the game. he was a non-factor

 

[LieutenantNeyland]

All that belly aching about being a three seed.

STFU, the kids earned it and got robbed by blue blood sucking pos committee members.

 

[BisonVol]

I'm as pro Barnes as it gets. He's done far more great things here than he has bad, but there's no denying that he's just not good in the tournament for one reason or another.

 

[WestTennesseeVol]

I’m honestly just happy I got to see Tennessee win a SEC Championship in a major sport that I can actually remember.

 

[Go47]

We got nothing from JJJ, Vescovi, and Fulky.

When Uros is outperforming those guys, you know you are losing.

 

[golfballs]

Michigan was our worse possible matchup

There’s so much **** about this game. A coach who should have been fired. A corrupt committee who put us as a 3. And against another team playing in the same place they played their conference tourney. We didn’t play well, but this is not what a team like ours should have to face.

 

[VolunteerCeltic]

Are you stating our play wasn’t responsible for the loss today?

Nope, didnt say that at all. But Vols had 4 fouls in the first 2 minutes and two were and-1s before Michigan had one.

 

[vols 30]

Barnes has a long history of choking in the tourney. It's just a fact. Always favored too.

It's true. I'm a RB supporter, but there is no denying his limited tourney success

 

[kell7517]

I got blasted a month or so ago for saying these scoring droughts was going to cost this team sooner or later and here we are

Well If people
Say we are good or no good. Eventually you will be correct.