The Official #4 Tennessee vs. #13 Louisiana NCAA Tournament Game Thread, 9:40 PM ET, CBS

[D3Athlete]

It is never easy. Like holy hell. We won all that matters. Lord almighty tho, Duke may have their with us.

 

[patrick]

Barnes just said they played a team that could really score the ball. 55 pts is not scoring the basketball.

 

[acd4476]

No they will not...lol

40?

 

[MoCo_Vol]

Better to win by 3 than be down by 22 like A&M

 

[Kicker82]

Defense won that game and will be the only way we stay close with duke

 

[JCP201]

That was stressful, but we won. We are going to have to be stronger on offense if we want to beat Duke.

 

[Chris4Vols22]

Tough to imagine beating Duke, but it wouldn't be the craziest thing to happen.

 

[The Tall Gguy]

Way way closer than it should have been

 

[TooLegit2Quit]

I swear if we get Pat Adams again. Dude is a disgrace and makes the sport unwatchable. Can't even enjoy a win. Inconsistent and arbitrarily enforced rulebook with all the notice me BS on top.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

Survive and advance.

But we have to play a hell of a lot better Saturday.

 

[BreatheUT]

This feels like Mizz and Vandy.

It had that feel. Fortunately we were up a mile otherwise a 1/2 mile wouldn't have been enough.

 

[JMSqb11]

At end of the day, this team’s anchor is the defense. We were always going to catch a run from them given they went 0-fer in first half from 3.

 

[Tenacjim]

I used to enjoy watching basketball.

 

[volbound1700]

No way we beat a hot Duke team

Possibly but this isn't the Duke of the Coach K era.

 

[Sea Ray]

So how many national pundits called Louisiana to win this game? Seth Davis! Clark Kellogg?

 

[jdogvol]

Fugly.

 

[BisonVol]

Feels like a loss

No win in the NCAA tournament should ever feel like a loss.

 

[camp_steveo]

Louisiana is better than I thought.

That's a good way to start the tournament. Really gets the team dialed in.

 

[BP4Prez]

Can’t trust either on the foul line late

I’ll take those two over anyone else we have

 

[Voldog1998]

If we don’t get more offensive production against Duke then it will be a blowout.

 

[marvin616]

God this team is going to make me indulge in hard drugs

It's been making this casual alcoholic relapse all season.
Saturday might be the reason for an intervention.

 

[omghulkhands]

We won. Don’t care what any of you have to say!!!!

 

[sechamp2012]

Duke will win by 30

I’ll take UT and 30 for whatever you want to bet.

 

[lifeisdeep]

Our foul shooting is pathetic. I don’t understand it.

It’s because of that rule that prohibits them from practicing free throws at practice. Clearly Barnes knows about that rule because they sure as hell never practice them.

 

[Sportslady]

Refs still trying to put in the fix. No way that was a block on us. Our missed FT's tonite can still bite us almost as bad as some of the calls and the 55 no calls as they have mauled us all nite.

From the games I have watched, ULL played better defense tonight than Duke will. We shall see.