The Official #6 [2] Tennessee vs. #2 [1] Houston Game Thread, 2:20 PM ET, CBS

[VolsSportsFan]

Igor has to wake the hell up and be physical. If you lose, so be it! But have some pride and fight back.

Won't happen. He absolutely sucks.

 

[JFreak]

Gets pretty old watching TN teams across all sports not even show up in big games. At least the BaseVols know how to close it out.

 

[UTK]

Houston defense looks like it’s far better than ours…and we’re known for our defense. Making us shoot crap shots.

They just have it on easy mode. Our missing 3s aren’t their defense, plenty of them had space to go in. When you see a team is ice cold from the arc, you just let them keep jacking em up. Meanwhile our defense has the pressure times a million because they know they have to get stops. Bad situation

 

[Stoerner Fumbles]

Sure thing chief

Thx yard boy.

 

[connor]

Why is it that we can’t get past this Final Four hump? Like g0d damnit bro

 

[camp_steveo]

Gotta get hot to mount a comeback. Keep pushing

 

[GAVol]

This is the cap with Barnes, love the guy but UT needs to decide is the occasional sweet 16 or elite 8 enough or do they want to win a championship?

Derp… Knew this crap would start.

 

[vol94]

That’s not what this is

What is it?

 

[Jaingo]

 

[TheBigOne10]

Igor is a waste of NIL

 

[vols 30]

There's no comparing these defenses. Houston's is far better and when you have our shaky offense..........it's not good

 

[volnbama_]

They just need to chip away little by little. A couple made shots can do wonders for momentum. Good news is that the shooting can’t get worse. Defensive effort is concerning

 

[HeuperDrive]

can I just say the people in this thread trying to say the FF “doesn’t matter” because “you lost anyway” are stupid

we’re not some blue blood. We’ve never been to a final four in our entire f'cking existence. It’d be our greatest achievement in this sport yet. Stop coping and pretending it doesn’t matter.

 

[Memphisvol87]

If they have an answer for their defense in the 2nd half it still won’t matter. We let them get wayyyy too far ahead while sitting around jacking up terrible shots. Great gameplan.

 

[ForeverfaithfulVOL]

Sharp you cry baby shut up

 

[Matt_Netherlands]

Tennessee never had the offense on a game to game basis to be a serious title contender unfortunately. If the defense is even a little bit off, it shows.

 

[Anti-shunshinepumper]

Yeah, waste of half a mill.

Not trying to pile on but I also will not be sad to see him go

 

[utvolpj]

Ohio State came back from 20pts down in the tourney one year. Just saying...

 

[BallinVol]

Screw it. Ill eat crow again if they mount an epic comeback. We're as cooked as the crow.

 

[volsarelife1]

I legit feel bad for fans that went to that hellhole city to witness this

I contemplated. But so glad I didn't waste money. I would've been even more mad with this effort and performance

 

[zeppelin128]

I legit feel bad for fans that went to that hellhole city to witness this

I know their pain, I made the trip to Columbus to witness that debacle.

 

[orange_glory]

I, for one, will not miss seeing Igor next year. He has had 2-3 good games this year, but has not come close to playing SEC basketball.

We need better bigs

 

[VolsSportsFan]

I know Houston has a great defense....but that's no excuse to be THIS bad at the 3. We've clanked wide open shots.

 

[Hoggervol]

I, for one, will not miss seeing Igor next year. He has had 2-3 good games this year, but has not come close to playing SEC basketball.

What did our staff ever see in him?

 

[UTK]

If they have an answer for their defense in the 2nd half it still won’t matter. We let them get wayyyy too far ahead while sitting around jacking up terrible shots. Great gameplan.

What’s your game plan coach.