Ament's injury

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WaywardVol said:
Agreed. It absolutely matters if

sorry man, that was meant for the guy you were responding to. I was if saying Aments health is in question. If he plays and puts up 20 question answered.
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If he plays, it doesn’t matter how. We aren’t dropping to a 9. After Thursday of the tournament, the bracket is being set.
 
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VolGee4 said:
Not in the committee’s eyes. Most of the bracket is set by the weekend of the conference tournaments. Of course, I want to win, but history has proven it.
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Get blown out on Friday or Saturday and you’ll see that it does matter to the committee.

Very few teams are still playing on Sunday. Even then they’ll have the scenarios for those outcomes as contingencies for the final bracket. Every game matters.
 
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Thunder Good-Oil said:
Get blown out on Friday or Saturday and you’ll see that it does matter to the committee.

Very few teams are still playing on Sunday. Even then they’ll have the scenarios for those outcomes as contingencies for the final bracket. Every game matters.
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The past has not proven that, but you can keep saying it. Our SECT title was great for our program to get that one after a long drought. It didn’t really affect our seeding that year.
 
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Honestly, I'd like to sit him until the NCAA's. We should beat SC, and the Vandy game will be close even without Nate. I don't give a rat's ass about the SEC tournament, and I'm not stressing over seeding at this point. And giving Evans starting minutes might be something that pays dividends come tournament time.

This team has shown it can play with anyone in the country when they are on their game, so for once I'm not going to grind over the tournament draw. Get Nate healthy, and bring on whoever they throw at us.
 
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VOLINVONORE said:
Me too, but we don't get paid the big bucks to make those decisions. I don't throng we go very far in the NCAAs with out him.
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Maybe he should do like the football players and just sit out the remaining games this season and protect himself for the big league contract. Most think its okay for star football players to sit. I know they don’t have a combine but Ament stills needs to show he is healthy and ready for next fall.
 
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CamVol8 said:
5 blown double digit leads. They most definitely are mentally weak
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I'd blame the blown leads more on roster construction more than mental weakness. I think we are a rotation player short. JG and NA barely get a breather. BB is playing more minutes than he should be and Barnes has the choice of continuing to play those guys heavy minutes or play 2-3 guys who arent ready for high leverage minutes....

Right now, we have 2-3 guys when they play in the 2nd half our goal isnt to lose those minutes too bad...
 
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HeuperDrive said:
This feels like a pretty huge stretch. I really doubt we’d drop that much over resting an injured player
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We would if there’s a chance he’s out for the year. I can’t think of a single instance in the history of college basketball where a coach publicly stated during the regular season “XYZ player is being rested until the NCAAT.” It doesn’t happen.
 
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BigOrangeMojo said:
I'd blame the blown leads more on roster construction more than mental weakness. I think we are a rotation player short. JG and NA barely get a breather. BB is playing more minutes than he should be and Barnes has the choice of continuing to play those guys heavy minutes or play 2-3 guys who arent ready for high leverage minutes....

Right now, we have 2-3 guys when they play in the 2nd half our goal isnt to lose those minutes too bad...
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We got spoiled with rotation guys like Bowden, Pons, Mashack, and Ziegler in their freshmen and sophomore years. Evans and Brown have been better than expected, but they aren’t reliable enough to make sound plays in crunch time.
 
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adam.vol said:
We got spoiled with rotation guys like Bowden, Pons, Mashack, and Ziegler in their freshmen and sophomore years. Unfortunately, we’re like almost everyone else this year since Philips got hurt.
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This team is missing that Jordan Gainey type reserve.

Actually Boswell is probably that type of player now but he's playing 30-35 a night.
 
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CamVol8 said:
5 blown double digit leads. They most definitely are mentally weak
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I have hard time calling anyone mentally weak that's playing a sport at a level I didn't play at as a student-athlete. It's far more mentally weak to disparage those who are doing it, which is something you obviously haven't done.
 
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BigOrangeMojo said:
This team is missing that Jordan Gainey type reserve.

Actually Boswell is probably that type of player now but he's playing 30-35 a night.
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I forgot about Gainey coming off the bench. Yeah, Boswell would be better as a 6th man, but it feels like we only have two reliable guards and one small forward with a bum ankle.
 
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VolGee4 said:
The past has not proven that, but you can keep saying it. Our SECT title was great for our program to get that one after a long drought. It didn’t really affect our seeding that year.
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The committee changes every year and they look at everything. Including matchups.

In 2022 Auburn was the SEC regular season champion. Kentucky also got a #2 (they weren’t likely to give the SEC three #2s). Kentucky drew St Peters and lost. TN had a #3 and blew out Longwood. If TN went out in their first SECT game they wouldn’t have been bracketed as favorably. Every game matters.
 
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Thunder Good-Oil said:
The committee changes every year and they look at everything. Including matchups.

In 2022 Auburn was the SEC regular season champion. Kentucky also got a #2 (they weren’t likely to give the SEC three #2s). Kentucky drew St Peters and lost. TN had a #3 and blew out Longwood. If TN went out in their first SECT game they wouldn’t have been bracketed as favorably. Every game matters.
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Not sure 2022 is best example. Kentucky was a #3 seed by pretty much every metric before the SEC tourney and we were a #2.

And yes, karma caught up to them...

The committee picks and chooses its metrics on an ad hoc basis. We've both been around long enough to know there's different bracketing/seeding methodologies for different teams..
 
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BernardKingGOAT said:
I have hard time calling anyone mentally weak that's playing a sport at a level I didn't play at as a student-athlete. It's far more mentally weak to disparage those who are doing it, which is something you obviously haven't done.
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Nobody else was getting paid like these “student” athletes. Play time ended when the money officially started flowing.

I do agree with the poster mentioning we are a player short in the rotation. They mentioned Gainey specifically and I agree, he could come in and give us a spark. There isn’t a third guy at that level.

It’s maddening that we are one of the best rebounding teams and can’t get a bucket when needed, and don’t even mention free throws.
 
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mscc1998 said:
You can't fault the effort of the team. Heck, look at the rebound difference.47-30. Just not having Ament out there was the main difference in why we faltered down the stretch.
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That sounds good, but there's more at play here. This is Tennessee's 5th loss this season when leading by double digits. It's bigger than Ament being out.
 
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