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

[utkCREW]

Sad — KC go make your millions. Your teammates played scared, but it’s just college and chump change.

 

[vol94]

Exactly…some of the luckiest garbage thrown up falling in I’ve seen

This sucks. I haven’t felt this low I’ve a sporting event in years. Shame on me as it’s just a game put I have a pit in my stomach rt now.

 

[GBO18]

Hate it for Fulky.

 

[GoVolunteers]

Some nights shots don’t fall. Heartbreaking for the guys. Great season. Great team. Sad to see it end like that.

Great post there!

 

[BreatheUT]

I will have to find something else to fill in my day. This weekend's March Madness watching is probably over for me.

 

[VOLifornia]

Hold your head up KC. Nobody wanted to help you out today. Wasn’t your fault.

Another reason why he is a one and done. We Tennessee’d ourselves like usual today gents.

 

[GOVOLS 1]

The same clowns bashing Barnes are the ones who were praising him after the SEC Tournament Championship. You people are pathetic.

 

[Putbacks]

A healthy ON or a mature BHH could have been the difference. The officials allowed the physicality of Michigan determine the outcome.

 

[tnvols72]

Speaking statistics isn’t trolling.

Barnes cant shoot the 3 ball for them. I notice not too many blaming the players , just Barnes

 

[willinhf]

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?

Pearl years.

 

[gr82batnvol]

One guy beat us. Hats off to Michigan.

We couldn’t do anything about him. Also, couldn’t hit shots. Chandler had a rough final 5 mins but he seemed to be one of the only ones making things happen. James disappeared after the first half. Vescovi couldn’t get going. It was a really poor showing at the worst time.

 

[landscapingvol]

You could see this coming from a mile away when we had such a good shooting game on Thursday. We've not had back to back strong shooting games in a while

Yep, too many liabilities on offense like Fulkerson, Vescovi, and Plavcic even though he played pretty decently tonight.

 

[UTSuave’]

No 3 pointers going down for us and Michigan is the third richest school in the country. After their last beating they had all the reason in the world to pull this. Absolute trash seeding and match up.

These tournament rims are stiff…anytime one hit the rim it sounded like someone was kicking down a door

 

[DEFENDTHISHOUSE]

We got to see Tennessee win the SEC tournament. Today hurts, but I’ll take it.

 

[EZE]

Well Volnation, this one hurts. I have the same feeling as I did when football Vols los to LSU in SEC title game.
Idk why or shooting was so poor form three and don’t understand why we can’t get over the hump. It seems a team gets hot against us every yr and we go cold.

I feel so bad for the players, coaches and us, the fans. With that said, Michigan made the shots, we didn’t. I enjoyed this season and appreciate being part of the game threads. This one hurts as I thought this was our best team who was peeking at the rt time.

The sad thing is that we had great looks. Just seized up down the stretch

 

[Berry4Heisman14]

Ok, you wanna gire him ? The guy just brought us our 1st SEC title in 40 years or however long. Answer this who you gonna go get when we fire him ? Whos going to come here firing a guy off an SEC title ?

He’s not going anywhere but he will never take us deep in the tournament that’s evident

 

[YankeeVol]

 

[Madscientistvol]

Ugh suddenly i dont care about the tournament anymore.

I was about to say this too. I was worried when I saw Michigan in our way and felt bad about this game from the start, I had that they bounced us and now I’m apathetic towards the rest of the tourney. Back to Elden Ring I guess.

 

[VFL1993]

I really don’t want to read anything about how we lost because the refs or how the media was against us. Our entire offensive philosophy is being able to hit the threes and we couldn’t hit them to save our lives today. It’s easy to forget that we’ve had a few games this season in which we couldn’t hit threes and we either lost or only scored 40 or 50 points. We need some one who can add something under the basket. Right now we have three guys who are afraid of contact and Uros who is just about as unathletic of a player as you will find.

 

[utvolpj]

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

You said not scoring enough points might cause us to lose? That's some serious analytics

 

[zaqhhh]

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

The thing was we hadn't really had them with leads in the last part of the game. This time we did. Timing is everything

 

[Kingzport]

Wholeheartedly believe KC comes back… if we made a run, no chance. That ending, I think he comes back…

 

[orangerush]

Michigan constantly in the paint. We could use some athleticism.

 

[vols 30]

ON might have made a difference today

 

[chef3531]

Several Tennessee fans need to apologize to Joe Lunardi. He was right. We weren’t. In all actuality we were probably over-seeded at No. 3. I’ll eat crow.

You realize how much harder it is statistically to make the Final Four as a 3 seed compared to a 2? Numbers don't lie