The Official Tennessee vs. Ole Miss Game Thread, 12:00 pm ET (3/5/16), SEC Network

[YankeeVol]

Tennessee Volunteers: 13-17 (6-11 SEC)

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Ole Miss Rebels: 19-11 (9-8 SEC)

MARCH 5 » THOMPSON-BOLING ARENA » KNOXVILLE, TENN. » 12:01 P.M. ET


Line: UT +1
O/U: 151


TV: SEC Network
Radio: Vol Network
Satellite Radio: Sirius: 134, XM: 192
Online: WatchESPN

 

[YankeeVol]

Overall: UT leads, 70-42

In Knoxville: UT leads, 40-11

In Oxford: UT leads, 25-24

Neutral Sites: UM leads, 7-5

Current Streak: Ole Miss has won one

Last Meeting: Ole Miss won, 59-57, in Oxford, 2/21/15

Barnes vs. Ole Miss: No meetings

Barnes vs. Kennedy: No meetings

 

[YankeeVol]

True freshmen have scored 51 percent of Tennessee’s points over the last two games.

The Vols owned a +2.0 turnover margin before Kevin Punter Jr.’s injury.

In four games without Punter, that margin is -1.5.

Tennessee shares the SEC lead and ranks 35th nationally with just 11.1 turnovers per game.

Tennessee is 3-1 in its last four Senior Day games. The loss came last year against South Carolina.

 

[YankeeVol]

Prevent Tennessee’s first four-game losing streak of the season.

Give UT a 2-3 record in the absence of injured senior Kevin Punter Jr., who is the nation’s 12th-leading scorer (22.2 ppg).

Make Ole Miss the 174th school over which Rick Barnes has logged at least one career head-coaching win.

Give the Vols a 3-0 record in their Smokey Grey uniforms.

 

[YankeeVol]

Had to make it early as I'll be flying pretty much all day tomorrow.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

Ole Miss by 10.

 

[tonybologna]

0% chance we win now that Punter is lost for the rest of the season. I was looking forward to watching Punter go up against Moody. That won't happen now.

Moody eats us up. I'll say Ole Miss 82 Vols 72. Moody scores at least 30 after putting up 43 in his last game. Crowned SEC scoring champ.

 

[volakil]

No Punter = No win

 

[ttocswob]

Cinco de Marzo - I'm in.

Hope I'm wrong, but... I'm afraid the basketball Vols will go out with a whimper.

 

[InVOLuntary]

Any word on Hubbs availability?

 

[508mikey]

Any word on Hubbs availability?

really ?

 

[508mikey]

Phillips - Moore - and Baulkman hopefully play well again and when they do the Vols are at least an entertaining team to watch

 

[InVOLuntary]

really ?

Sorry, did I miss something?

 

[508mikey]

Sorry, did I miss something?

not really - he is hard to figure out -HUBBS BATTLING KNEE INJURY

Junior Robert Hubbs III, the Vols' third-leading scorer at 10.8 ppg, has missed Tennessee's last two games due to a right knee injury.
Hubbs has now missed four games this season due to knee issues; he underwent an arthroscopic procedure on the same knee back in December and missed a pair of non-conference games during recovery. this was posted on the Gameday site yesterday

 

[InVOLuntary]

not really - he is hard to figure out

Lol. I thought I was a DA or something for asking that. Thought I'd missed he quit the team or something. I hadn't heard Barnes had addressed it like he did last week.

 

[vols 30]

Any word on Hubbs availability?

Depends on him

 

[Dallasbowlin]

His parents are attending, so he may play.

 

[aredfox28]

Depends on him

I seen him practicing yesterday when I was walking around taking pics

 

[BruinVol]

Huge movement in the line

Opened -2 now a 3.5pt dog

Vegas wins today and AMoore goes out with a win

Vols 73
Ole miss 69

 

[VolsSportsFan]

So sloppy.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

But we're up 7-0.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

Nevermind.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

We have to be one of the worst ball handling teams I've ever seen. Not to mention we rarely come up with loose balls.

 

[Dallasbowlin]

Dear god, why is Moore playing pg???

 

[Paper_Towel]

I try to watch the games, but they're just too sloppy. It irritates me so much.