The Official #8 Tennessee vs. #22 Auburn SEC Tournament Championship Game Thread, 1:00 PM ET, ESPN

[zaqhhh]

Id rather have played 3 games against Florida, South Carolina, and Mizzou than play MS State and Kentucky

True but that doesn't excuse this performance.

 

[I Love Lamp]

No kidding, this is all I could picture in my head every time we went down the floor and turned it over. This stupid gif on repeat for 12 minutes straight.

 

[hUTch2002]

If Auburn was shooting their regular 3 pt percentage, this would be a 20 pt game.

If they shot 50% we would be down almost 30.

I'm hoping that the fact we are still "in it" will get us going, but idk.

I’ve learned in life not to say “it can’t get worse” as it always can. As far as this game goes our play doesn’t seem like it can be any worse though. We are fortunate to only be down 9.

 

[utvolkyle]

Auburn overplaying every pass on defense need to make strong back cuts.

 

[Power T-Rev]

If Auburn was shooting their regular 3 pt percentage, this would be a 20 pt game.

If they shot 50% we would be down almost 30.

I'm hoping that the fact we are still "in it" will get us going, but idk.

What if we we're shooting our normal percentage? Your schtick gets old

 

[TennesseeFan07]

Barnes has coached all these guys for three to four years. There's no magic speech to motivate them to go and take it. They simply will show some pride or they'll roll over in the second half. It starts with Admiral Schofield.

 

[vavolfan6]

Need to have drastically different game plan for the next half. Surprised we looked under-prepared for this game after having tape on Auburn from 2 weeks ago..

 

[I4Vols]

Bruce's teams are never disciplined

If disciplined means being committed and playing to your game plan then I and the score begs to differ.

 

[OneVolNation]

Need to focus and execute free of turnovers.

 

[ButchPlz]

This kind of crappy performance is why I have BVS.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

Played horribly and only down 9. We're still in this. Time for VolNation to BELIEVE!!!!!

There's 2 ways to look at it.

1) We start playing well, Auburn continues to struggle at the 3, we'll pull it out.
2) We keep playing like garbage and Auburn doesn't keep struggling, this will get embarrassingly ugly

 

[RavinDave]

Need to follow our worst half of the year with one of our best.

 

[vols 30]

Seriously! I see people already saying it's over and we're only down by 9 with a whole half to go! Jeez.

Yep. It's like everything they've accomplished this season doesn't matter.

 

[Vols All Day]

This game is all about who has more guts. Both teams are tired, but whoever pushes through it is going to earn the championship. Hopefully, the Vols find the guts during halftime, because we didn’t have it in the first half.

 

[utvolfan98]

Technically, it's just a 3 possession game. We made up 12 points in less than 3 minutes yesterday. We can overcome this too. This team won't quit.

 

[LordVOLdemort]

We got this. #bookit

 

[hUTch2002]

I can’t believe what I just heard. TN as a 1 regardless? Wow.

 

[DNBVOL]

There's 2 ways to look at it.

1) We start playing well, Auburn continues to struggle at the 3, we'll pull it out.
2) We keep playing like garbage and Auburn doesn't keep struggling, this will get embarrassingly ugly

Knowing Tennessee it will be #2

 

[TN1111]

Auburn overplaying everything- backdoors should be there.

 

[A-RodWiLks]

Tennessee will win this game. LET'S GOOOOOOO VOLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[vols 30]

Lunardi just said we might be better off if we lost . #1 in the West vs. #2 seed in Louisville

 

[FlVols]

20 more minutes to get this one. Do we want it? LET’S GO VOLS! WIN TO CUT DOWN THE NUTS!!

 

[zaqhhh]

What if we we're shooting our normal percentage? Your schtick gets old

Why are you always so confrontational?

I am a statistician at heart, I didn't say I hated the team. In fact I said I hoped the fact we were still in it should give us hope.

Stop trying to take your anger with the game, your life, etc out on people observing the game.

Makes you seem even more pathetic.

 

[JohnD13]

Damn. As appreciative of Barnes as I have been this year tho is a pathetic performance by him. Where were the tos? Getting in the players Daves and encouraging them to ha e energy. Why wasn’t he in the officials ear at all in that first half? We should’ve gotten 2 buckets in the first half off goaltending. What the hell! Pearl looks like the far better coach here so far

Wow our fans. Wow

 

[vavolfan6]

We can't let Auburn shoot another 20 3's and expect to have a chance next half..