The Official #4 Tennessee @ Ole Miss Game Thread, 9:00 PM ET, ESPN2

[amaralfan1]

He wasn't fouled at least not enough to get a call in that situation. Have to be strong with the ball and make the shot.

It was called the other way virtually the entire game.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

Rather have a heartbreak like this now then in the tourney

Milicic going to be working hard in the gym after that.

Glad to have experienced the game vs Bama and this one

You need to experience this stuff before the tourney

You cannot be serious right now

 

[volsack]

lol we’re cooked then

Doesn't matter at all. Since 2000, only one team has won the natty that finished the regular season outside of Ken Pom's top 21 in offensive and defensive efficiency and that was UCONN in 2014. Tennessee is 27th in offensive effeciency, so none of this even matters, they statistically have no chance

 

[SicEmSmokey33]

Right they should have maybe, idk, broken Brakefields hands or something to keep him from scoring. One of the most EARNED dominate performances by a player, and you're crapping on Tenn because they aren't getting a #1 seed they likely weren't getting anyway.

This team has found ways to win better than any Barnes team. What is frustrating about it? Look at their losses and how the other team played. Quit whining.

Found a way to lose tonight.... multiple 8 point leads blown, typical scoring droughts let a inferior team hang around

 

[Titans4Vols]

About as easy of a shot as you'll ever get in that situation and Igor just completely fumbled it. Annoying, but oh well I guess.

 

[theFallGuy]

Typical TN sports. So frustrating. Now we will be a 2 seed in Duke’s bracket. Hopefully Houston’s but don’t think it will matter. We can’t string together four consecutive games.
Ole Miss is similar to an eighth seed

If being a top 10 team is typical TN I'll take it

 

[VolGee4]

This team just isn’t a front runner. Every time they get ahead, they trip.

24-6 tripping I will take.

 

[OrngeJuiceJones]

46 points in the paint given up

 

[C-south]

I can’t understand why you don’t encourage Shack to take the one on one rather than calling timeout and hoping Ole Miss struggles more with half court defense than transition defense.

That’s only partially Igor’s fault. Mashack could have had the same shot with more time on the clock.

There’s at least 3 other guys who should have been taking that shot out of a timeout.

 

[Vols till I fall]

I think this was and is the best time for us to have experienced a heartbreaking loss.

 

[vol4eva]

Brakefield just scored another and 1

 

[BradstarVols]

If other teams do it then how is it a Tennessee thing? This team is 24-6. Losing close games isn’t a “Tennessee thing”.

Because they seem to do it a lot. It's not about losing a close game. It's about losing to an inferior opponent with a lot on the line.

 

[vols1071]

Please talk to Barnes Coach Gainey... Your son needs more opportunities

 

[BernardKingGOAT]

Losing to Vandy, Ky at home and this team is just inexcusable

I excuse it without question. That doesn't mean anything, of course because I'm a nobody. I don't ever feel like a few losses in a marathon season is that big of a deal. They played well, as other talented teams can do. You'll learn

 

[RiseToTheTop]

If being a top 10 team is typical TN I'll take it

You missed his point

 

[VolunteerCeltic]

This is why I have little faith we will go far in the NCAA's.

It doesn't matter what bracket TN is in, they won't make it far enough to play Duke or Houston

 

[Freak]

Never be shocked by dumb takes in a game thread.

Seriously, how many big games have we won this year? Yet according to some we always choke. It's tough to go on the road and win. We were three-point favorites. Everyone knew it would be a battle. Didn't go our way.

 

[Pepe_Silvia]

That’s that. Kiss the #1 seed goodbye. Probably at best a #2 seed. Go Vols.

Did you just start watching basketball?

You don't drop from a #1 seed to a #3 seed because of one loss.

 

[MoCo_Vol]

My biggest complaint, they took 14 more shots than us.

We seemed to get tentative looking for the perfect shot a bit too much.

Hard to win on the road in the SEC, they attacked the paint in second half and we didn’t adjust.

 

[GAVol]

Brakefield just scored another and 1

Dude had the half of his life.

 

[GBO18]

I'll make a prediction, South Carolina will come into the Tommy bowl and make it a one possession game on Saturday

SHOCKING prediction coming from you.

 

[Cdywolfe]

He wasn't fouled at least not enough to get a call in that situation. Have to be strong with the ball and make the shot.

Ole Miss stayed in the game by getting to the line off that level of contact or less.

 

[VOLifornia]

These last two games gave us the opportunity to be seeded #1 in arguably the most favorable bracket toward a final four run in recent history IMO. We just can’t have nice things. We’ll now get seeded in Duke’s region and Flagg will Brakefield us if we get far enough to play them. BVS kicking in maybe? LOL

 

[OrangeInKy]

Still, had a #1 seed on the line and didn’t get it done and now that’s gone.

I don’t know if I’d call it a choke but we had leads that we didn’t extend and then went back into our usual offensive drought

They won Saturday with a 1 seed on the line. This was a brutal stretch to end the season, and they lost 1 of the last 4, which I think we all expected would happen (but we thought it would be Bama or A&M).

 

[TrapVol]

Some of you need to step back from the ledge.

I allowed myself to stare down the ledge for just a moment… just a moment. Being a Tennessee fan is hard sometimes.