Tennessee Vs. Michigan Preview.

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2014 NCAA Tournament: No. 2 Michigan vs No. 11 Tennessee Preview

The No. 2 seed in the Midwest region of the 2014 NCAA Tournament, the Michigan Wolverines, have rolled to a spot in the Sweet 16 with impressive wins over the No. 7 seeded Texas Longhorns and the No. 15 seed Wofford. With the No. 1 seeded Wichita State Shockers and the No. 3 seeded Duke Blue Devils already falling, Michigan will believe that they have an easy path to the Elite Eight. Unfortunately, the Wolverines will face the hottest team in college basketball in the Sweet 16, the No. 11 seeded Tennessee Volunteers.

Tennessee crushed the 2014 NCAA Tournament’s Cinderella team in the No. 14 seeded Mercer Bears after they dominated the No. 6 seeded UMass Minutemen and escaped with a win against the No. 11 seeded Iowa Hawkeyes in the First Four. Jarnell Stokes is one of the best players in college basketball, and it is showing in their wins.

What to Watch For: Michigan is one of the worst rebounding teams in college basketball, whereas the Volunteers are one of the best. Nik Stauskas will have to have the game of his life from range if the Wolverines are to break through Tennessee’s defense and Josh Richardson. Richardson’s defense will be key for both teams.

Prediction: The Volunteers are getting hot at the right time. Michigan may be one of the best teams in college basketball, but they don’t have an answer for Jeronne Maymon and Stokes down low. Expect a huge game from Stauskas, but the Wolverines will fall short of the streaking Vols.

Tennessee 68, Michigan 60
 
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Christian Lowe said:
2014 NCAA Tournament: No. 2 Michigan vs No. 11 Tennessee Preview

The No. 2 seed in the Midwest region of the 2014 NCAA Tournament, the Michigan Wolverines, have rolled to a spot in the Sweet 16 with impressive wins over the No. 7 seeded Texas Longhorns and the No. 15 seed Wofford. With the No. 1 seeded Wichita State Shockers and the No. 3 seeded Duke Blue Devils already falling, Michigan will believe that they have an easy path to the Elite Eight. Unfortunately, the Wolverines will face the hottest team in college basketball in the Sweet 16, the No. 11 seeded Tennessee Volunteers.

Tennessee crushed the 2014 NCAA Tournament’s Cinderella team in the No. 14 seeded Mercer Bears after they dominated the No. 6 seeded UMass Minutemen and escaped with a win against the No. 11 seeded Iowa Hawkeyes in the First Four. Jarnell Stokes is one of the best players in college basketball, and it is showing in their wins.

What to Watch For: Michigan is one of the worst rebounding teams in college basketball, whereas the Volunteers are one of the best. Nik Stauskas will have to have the game of his life from range if the Wolverines are to break through Tennessee’s defense and Josh Richardson. Richardson’s defense will be key for both teams.

Prediction: The Volunteers are getting hot at the right time. Michigan may be one of the best teams in college basketball, but they don’t have an answer for Jeronne Maymon and Stokes down low. Expect a huge game from Stauskas, but the Wolverines will fall short of the streaking Vols.

Tennessee 68, Michigan 60
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O.k. Sounds good! Sooooo...do we still have to play the game?:whistling:
GO VOLS!
 
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If we are 35% from 3
and a +10 rebounding margin, then Tennessee SHOULD win the game
However, we COULD win the game no matter how badly Tennessee shoots, as long as Michigan isn't on fire.
 
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If we play high level, the game will go down to the wire like 79-78 either way, nail bitter game one of those you got to get lucky to make a deep run like to the final 4, most of the time you get lucky once, I don't know if we used our luck card against Iowa or not, hope not, Michigan is a very very good basketball team that could win it all, but the BIG ORANGE can win it to, 4 more to make history play in game to NC baby bring them on in any order kick azz time.
 
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With their shooting, Michigan is never really out of a game. Also mean's they're capable of getting ahead in a hurry. We'll have to play a complete 40 minutes to win and we'll have to weather a few runs. Last year in the national championship, it looked like they were about to blow Louisville out of the gym at the start. Our mental toughness will be huge.

Count on a lot of UK fans in the crowd and I have no clue who they'll be cheering for. Louisville fans will almost certainly be pulling for the Vols.
 
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Jonboy said:
With their shooting, Michigan is never really out of a game. Also mean's they're capable of getting ahead in a hurry. We'll have to play a complete 40 minutes to win and we'll have to weather a few runs. Last year in the national championship, it looked like they were about to blow Louisville out of the gym at the start. Our mental toughness will be huge.

Count on a lot of UK fans in the crowd and I have no clue who they'll be cheering for. Louisville fans will almost certainly be pulling for the Vols.
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I think the team showed a lot of maturity and mental toughness against Iowa. Go Vols!
 
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What's kind of nice is that we can run a similar game plan that we did against Mercer. Put JRich on their scorer (Stauskas) and just pound the paint. Michigan struggles the most against teams that force turnovers, hit the offensive boards hard and get to the free throw stripe. At least we have a shot to check two of those off. We're just going to need to play more physical on the perimeter than we did against Mercer. This is going to be a real test
 
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However, I think this game might come down to turnovers. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.
 
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This is going to be a very difficult game for us. Michigan has 4 guys shooting 40%+ from 3 BUT like the article said, they have pretty much ZERO low post presence. Their head coach is solid and they will play the pick and roll all game long. I expect them to try and get us mismatched with Stokes or Maymom on Stauskas, cause that guy can flat out create his own shot. Should be a great game....GO VOLS!
 
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Tennessee's perimeter defense has to be good in this game. I like Richardson on Staukas, but McRae and Barton will need to work hard too. We are athletic outside and IMO Vols can bother Michigan's shooters, and then pound on them on the other end of the court. I like the way this team is playing.
 
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Sin City Vol said:
This is going to be a very difficult game for us. Michigan has 4 guys shooting 40%+ from 3 BUT like the article said, they have pretty much ZERO low post presence. Their head coach is solid and they will play the pick and roll all game long. I expect them to try and get us mismatched with Stokes or Maymom on Stauskas, cause that guy can flat out create his own shot. Should be a great game....GO VOLS!
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Since this one is in Indy, hopefully their long range shooters will be affected by the dome atmosphere. :crossfingers:
 
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bigorange said:
Since this one is in Indy, hopefully their long range shooters will be affected by the dome atmosphere. :crossfingers:
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Their returning players shot a combined 53% from 3 in domes during last year's NCAA tournament.
 
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JackHVFL said:
If we are 35% from 3
and a +10 rebounding margin, then Tennessee SHOULD win the game
However, we COULD win the game no matter how badly Tennessee shoots, as long as Michigan isn't on fire.
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Mercer had me scared with their 3 percentage coming in. Was very happy from the start to see our guys pressing them hard outside and denying them good looks for 3s. They were pushing them out to NBA-3 range. Sure, they got a few naked looks and made some but we pretty much hamstrung their usual 3 game. With not much of an inside game, Mercer really had no chance.

DEFENSE won that game...and just about all the others of the last few weeks. I do hope we continue bruising inside and denying the easy 3s against Mich.
 
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Michigan is a #2 seed for a reason. I do like what I hear about their rebounding. Sounds like it could be a formula for our success. Richardson has shut down other big names in this tourney most notably the kid from Iowa. If we rebound and he shuts down their sharp shooter, we have more than a chance. One thing I like is that rebounding and defense travels, and that is what we have built this run on to this point! You live by the three and die by the three! (just ask duke!) Go Vols!
 
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Keep doing what we've been doing, playing defense, making free throws, dominating the boards and taking care of the ball. You do those things and we will have a damn good chance of winning. Getting hot from the outside and hitting the inside out 3s at a high rate would be lovely, but I'm not greedy.

Gonna try and find a replay of the Michigan State vs. Michigan game tonight, but Michigan state is similar to us inside with Payne and Dawson. Michigan State won that game by 15 points fwiw.

The equalizer is the 3 ball, if we keep Michigan under 35% from 3 I think we win the game.
 
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