I believe we said something similar last year. We had the easiest bracket.
I agree. If this game gets “pretty”, we are probably in trouble. It needs to be a down-in-the-mud, eye gouging, hair pulling, chain in the tights, Mid South Coliseum rasslin’ match. If the refs let us and we can muck it up, I think the young Dookie’s will get frustrated. Of course, we’ve all seen Duke get favorable whistles. It should be interesting.Call me a dreamer folks, but I think Tennessee wins this one.
We have seen Tennessee have good nights shooting and horrible nights shooting... this doesn't apply tonight. As you have seen all season long, we win our games based off defense. Duke struggles against elite defensive teams and that is what we are. We are a veteran scrappy, hard nose defensive veteran team
Duke is young and while very talented, are inexperienced. I have seen flipowski go a couple of games scoreless and that is the key for us, to stop their inside game and force them to beat us from 3.
I think the Vols win this one by 5 points. Pretty or not does not matter as long as you advance. A win today gets us to the sweet 16 against a 16 seed or a 9 seed
Vols 64 Duke 59
With Purdue AND Mempiss State going down and the bracket opening up, it's a golden opportunity for our program. The door is wide open for us to step through with a win over Duke. We couldn't have asked for a better road to the elite 8/final 4. That's why I'm going to have to pick Duke. We just don't walk through those doors. Not our way. I know in my bones that Lucy is gonna pull that damned football away.....again. Nope. Not falling for it. Cup is secure. Bourbon at the ready. Full nega on this one. Fire away folks.
With Purdue AND Mempiss State going down and the bracket opening up, it's a golden opportunity for our program. The door is wide open for us to step through with a win over Duke. We couldn't have asked for a better road to the elite 8/final 4. That's why I'm going to have to pick Duke. We just don't walk through those doors. Not our way. I know in my bones that Lucy is gonna pull that damned football away.....again. Nope. Not falling for it. Cup is secure. Bourbon at the ready. Full nega on this one. Fire away folks.