Another Sweet Sixteen?

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Cincy Vol o5

Cincy Vol o5

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I haven't been reading as much around here (my own fault), so if it's been covered just merge or ignore what it is that I have to say.

I still don't see this team being able to get past the sweet sixteen, despite the depth and talent level to do so. Our inability to string together three solid games and three victories in a row will take us out. It started from the beginning (Siena-win, G-Town-win,Gonzaga-loss), again throughout the year (SC-win, Vandy-win, Memphis-loss) (Fla-win, Ark-win, Aub-loss) (Georgia-win, Vandy-win, Ole Miss-loss), and it happened again in the SEC tourney (Bama-win, Aub-win, Miss St.-loss).

The only time we put together three solid games and victories was against Mississippi State, Florida, and South Carolina. But we then went on to lose to Bama. Despite the depth we have, I don't see getting past the Sweet Sixteen (IF we get there) very likely, despite this arguably being Pearl's deepest team.
 
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Good analysis. I think we have a shot to get to the Sweet 16 if the matchups fall our way... we'll probably make a second round exit, though.
 
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It all depends on who we're matched against. Alot of experts have our 2nd round game in their bracketologies as UT playing either Wake Forest or Mizzou....if we can get a better matchup than that then perhaps
 
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UTCVol said:
Good analysis. I think we have a shot to get to the Sweet 16 if the matchups fall our way... we'll probably make a second round exit, though.
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I agree with the second round exit. But, obviously, the matchups are not favorable now that they have been revealed. It could be quite embarrassing for this team to play Pitt. I think we will beat OK State out of spite though. They aren't exactly world beaters.
 
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I could see us getting by OK St., then Pitt showing Pearl just how far the program is behind.
 
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even if we came up with an historically amazing victory over Pitt, FSU would thump us next.
 
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Depends on what team shows up.

The team that beat Bama on Thursday can beat both Oklahoma State and Pitt.
The team that lost to Miss. St. on Sunday couldn't beat Farragut.
 
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The Ok. State is a 50-50 game, as one would expect with 8 vs. 9. The Vols will have to play well to win it--take good shots and make shots. If the Vols shoot poorly, or are sloppy with the basketball, or clang a lot of free throws, they'll lose. And that's the problem with this team: it has a tendency to be sloppy. Pearl's teams tend to be sloppy--it's what you get with uptempo teams.
 
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I dont want to see TN lose at all, but man it will kill my bracket all together since I have Pitt winning it all
 
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Pitt is on an entirely different level than us.

We will be lucky to get out of round 1, it will be a privilege to play against pitt
 
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I still say that we have a team that nobody wants to play, because you never know who's going to show up. Our inconsistency is scary: we could play at our best and beat a number one seed. Now, the notion of us stringing together enough good games to make a deep run is very, very unlikely, but a couple of good wins is certainly possible.

All that being said, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if we get bounced by 15 in the first round. . .
 
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kiddiedoc said:
I still say that we have a team that nobody wants to play, because you never know who's going to show up. Our inconsistency is scary: we could play at our best and beat a number one seed. Now, the notion of us stringing together enough good games to make a deep run is very, very unlikely, but a couple of good wins is certainly possible.

All that being said, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if we get bounced by 15 in the first round. . .
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Ok the numbers are for us to get by Ok. State in the first round, being as though nine seeds are winning over a .500 percentage

Now, for the second round.....nine seeds are a whopping 3-49 against 1 seeds....doesn't look so good.

I think we can take Pitt.
 
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kiddiedoc said:
I still say that we have a team that nobody wants to play, because you never know who's going to show up. Our inconsistency is scary: we could play at our best and beat a number one seed. Now, the notion of us stringing together enough good games to make a deep run is very, very unlikely, but a couple of good wins is certainly possible.

All that being said, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if we get bounced by 15 in the first round. . .
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You're right. The inconsistency is what has hurt us all year. I, too, wouldn't be all that surprised if we lose by 15 on Friday. But when we play our best, I think we can give Pitt a run for their money.
 
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