NIT Round 1: #2 Tennessee vs. #7 Mercer, 8:00pm ET (03/20/13), ESPNU

[YankeeVol]

#2 Tennessee Volunteers: 20-12 (11-7 SEC)

vs.


#7 Mercer Bears: 23-11 (14-4 A-Sun)

8:00 PM ET, March 20, 2013
Thompson-Boling Arena, Knoxville, TN

Coverage: ESPNU

Line: UT -9
O/U: 125.5

 

[bleedingTNorange]

Gbo

 

[Ned Ray McWorkher]

FTH's.

 

[golfballs]

Go Vols!

Hope we come out more motivated than Kentucky did

 

[SJAVol32]

Just please don't lay an egg like UK did

 

[W.TN.Orange Blood]

gonna whip dey ass.

 

[mtt2d]

Go bold. And go vols!

 

[utfan72408]

Win this one, lose the next.

Avoid humiliation AND injury.

 

[iluvsmesumdooley]

Yawn.........

 

[Shaun1985]

The mighty Mercer Bears.

 

[YankeeVol]

66-53: Vols

 

[gnm53108]

Win this one, lose the next.

Avoid humiliation AND injury.

Would love to see a good run. Been too long since we've had one.

Take it all.

 

[leevol20]

I shall be decked in orange, whilst enjoying a few cold ones at my local bar.

Doesn't matter what tourney we're in, I'll watch every minute of every game.

 

[UTFanForLife]

The mighty Mercer Bears.

Well they did beat Alabama and Florida St., so they are probably feeling a little mighty

 

[gnm53108]

I shall be decked in orange, whilst enjoying a few cold ones at my local bar.

Doesn't matter what tourney we're in, I'll watch every minute of every game.

Change local bar to man cave and I'm the same.

 

[1982Alum]

Remember Kentucky! Don't embarrass the school like they did last night.

 

[YankeeVol]

Well they did beat Alabama and Florida St., so they are probably feeling a little mighty

They did lose to GA though

 

[Aesius]

They did lose to GA though

So did UT....twice.

 

[UTFanForLife]

So did UT....twice.

We did? I didn't know that

 

[golfballs]

Tennessee - 66
Mercer - 58

 

[golfballs]

Well they did beat Alabama and Florida St., so they are probably feeling a little mighty

Florida State is garbage.

Also, they beat Bama when Bama was playing some of their worst basketball of the year. We were also playing some of our worst after that drubbing we took at home to Ole Miss

 

[golfballs]

Mercer will be a handful. I think this game will be relatively close. Mercer was definitely getting better towards the end of their season. And even though they won their conference, they didn't play as well as expected this year.

I think we win, but the margin will be determined by how each team handles the disappointment of being left out of the NCAA tournament. Mercer won their conference but got upset in the championship game of their tournament. Are they fired up and ready to win? Or bummed and come out flat? Same deal with Tennessee.

 

[Gator H8R]

Looking at our bracket, I think we have a shot to make a good run if they stay up and dont lay down.

 

[Jonboy]

I'm so tired of people saying there's no motivation to win. If you aren't motivated to win every time you step on the court, then you have no business playing this game.

I hope we win the whole thing. I don't really care if it's only the NIT. Showing we can put together a string of games in any kind of tourney environment would be a great building block for next year.

 

[gnm53108]

I'm so tired of people saying there's no motivation to win. If you aren't motivated to win every time you step on the court, then you have no business playing this game.

I hope we win the whole thing. I don't really care if it's only the NIT. Showing we can put together a string of games in any kind of tourney environment would be a great building block for next year.

Thats a fact jack.