The Official #17 vs. #3 Houston Game Thread, 6:00 PM ET, TNT

[bleedingTNorange]

Every team gets $1 million. The winning team gets another $1 million on top of that.

To the current players, not next years recruiting budget

 

[bleedingTNorange]

As long as the NIL for the players is equal for the final 4, I'm good with playing whomever we do tomorrow. It's another opportunity for a quality win and going 3-0 with two high quality wins is a tournament win regardless of a trophy or not.

Sampson is on something about the fouls. They were fouling way more than they got called for, so us only shooting 29 free throws was a win for them. 8 of those 29 were them fouling on purpose in the final 35 seconds. They committed 21 total fouls, 17 before they started fouling to stop the clock. We were called for 15 total.

It’s not

 

[RockyTop140]

In that case the margin of victory is tough to swallow, since the match ups were not equal. Michigan got a "welcome to the finals" bracket.

I mean AU did go toe to toe with Houston earlier this season. Unless you think Houston just isnt that good its tough to call it a "welcome to the finals draw"

 

[peerless98]

Have a feeling we get Kansas tomorrow in the 3rd place game. We will see

You may be right, but as long as the Gonzaga/Maryland game is no more than 12 point spread, I think we are in the championship….fingers crossed

 

[swchandler1988]

13 point spread. Can’t lose by 14 or more. 9 point game right now

 

[peerless98]

I just want to win tomorrow regardless when or who we play.

 

[Volfan574]

Anywhere to watch the full game now? I couldn’t watch it live. Saw the highlights on youtube but I want to watch the full game.

 

[DC_Vol]

Anywhere to watch the full game now? I couldn’t watch it live. Saw the highlights on youtube but I want to watch the full game.

Thank Sir Freak.

Tennessee vs Houston full game video

www.volnation.com

 

[UTodd01]

This format is TRASH.

Get the best win of the year so far in college basketball. Here…have a consolation game.

 

[Voltopia]

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Oh that's even more dumb than the dumb I thought this "tournament" format was.

I take back just about everything I said about being fine with the second tier game. I don't want our guys to miss out on a chance for a bigger payday, I want them to get whatever they want out of it. Whatever gets them that is what I'm for.

 

[VolCalls]

There is different info all over the place. I can’t keep up.

 

[amaralfan1]

I think this tournament would be a bit more fair if you were docked some margin of victory in your second game for playing a team that didn't win their first game.

 

[Dougie_D]

Whoever created the tournament doesn’t understand basketball. This isn’t football where you can blow out teams. A win is a win. Forget tie breakers

 

[VolArmy74]

I mean AU did go toe to toe with Houston earlier this season. Unless you think Houston just isnt that good its tough to call it a "welcome to the finals draw"

I just don't think Auburn is a good team this year. They still lost to Houston at the end of the day, and never led a single second in the second half. They took overtime to squeeze one out against a bad Bethune-Cookman team, and are getting slaughtered by Michigan. San Diego State has loss to Troy on their young resume before facing Michigan.

 

[VOLINVONORE]

Ament needs strength and physical development/maturation above all.

I am sure he has had some bumps during scrimmages this Fall. He may not be a one and done if he doesn’t he puts on some muscle learns how to. play rough basketball.. Barnes will do what he can, but it is likely to take a while.

 

[Voltrapnbama]

Gosh, AU competed toe to toe with Houston and now theyre getting blasted by Michigan. Tough to draw any conclusions about them

Not really. They go as JP goes. They live and die by the 3 like bama has in the past. They hit them, they in it, they don’t, they blown out.

 

[Orangeslide]

This format is TRASH.

Get the best win of the year so far in college basketball. Here…have a consolation game.

Everyone understood the format before the tournament started. You may not like it, but it is what it is. If we don’t play for championship, no big deal.

 

[Jonboy]

 

[Vols All Day]

This format is TRASH.

Get the best win of the year so far in college basketball. Here…have a consolation game.

Lost some money too. Winner of the championship gets 1mil and the loser gets 500k.

 

[UTodd01]

Lost some money too. Winner of the championship gets 1mil and the loser gets 500k.

Whole thing feels shady and weird. It’s almost like they’re giving you the viewing experience of a gambler. Probably on purpose. Look no further than the Las Vegas venue.

 

[volfanhill]

Whole thing feels shady and weird. It’s almost like they’re giving you the viewing experience of a gambler. Probably on purpose. Look no further than the Las Vegas venue.

It's not like they changed the rules and that we weren't aware of them.

I wish we would stop being so ass hurt every time something doesn't go our way

 

[Delmar]

Zags up 30 with 6 minutes to go. Looks like the 3-4 game for us.

 

[vegasvolfan]

HOW BOUT THEM VOLS!!!

 

[vols 30]

Everyone understood the format before the tournament started. You may not like it, but it is what it is. If we don’t play for championship, no big deal.

True. In my eyes, we won it tonight.

 

[VolGee4]

I am sure he has had some bumps during scrimmages this Fall. He may not be a one and done if he doesn’t he puts on some muscle learns how to. play rough basketball.. Barnes will do what he can, but it is likely to take a while.

He’s a one and done. The discussion with Ament since we’ve recruited him was that he was lanky. But you can still be a great prospect with that frame just like Durant. He will fill out some at the next level, too.