Which Tiger To Tame

[orange+white=heaven]

Pearl and the Vols are at least talking the right game.
It's good to see their minds are on Wednesday, and the SEC Tigers for now....

A reporter opened Lofton’s interview session Monday by asking if the Vols were “ready for those Tigers.”
“You mean Auburn, right?” Lofton replied while laughing.

“I think the Memphis game’s always going to be in the back of our heads,” UT senior guard Chris Lofton said. “But we realize we’ve got an Auburn team coming in here that’s real good, and really capable of beating us. We know that.”

Last year’s Vols went to Auburn, blew a 14-point second-half lead and lost, 83-80.

“They really handed it to us in the second half down there last year,” said UT senior guard Jordan Howell, an Auburn, Ala., native. “After the Georgia game, all we’ve talked about is how we owe Auburn one.

“Auburn stands in the way of us winning an SEC championship. That’s the only game we’re worried about right now.”

Vols coach Bruce Pearl doesn’t often look backward, and he didn’t discuss last season’s loss at Auburn. But he did emphatically state that “the Auburn Tigers are the most important Tigers on our schedule this week.”

Why?

“It’s simple,” Pearl said. “That is an SEC game, and that game is all about doing something that hasn’t been done in 41 years.”

“Memphis isn’t even in our conference,” UT sophomore forward Duke Crews said. “As a team, we came to an agreement that if we could only win one of the two games, we’d rather it be Auburn, because it’s conference play, and we’re trying to do something special in the SEC.”

And Wednesday, again, is UT’s bigger game this week. That little 1-2 tussle Saturday is the undercard.
Just ask Pearl.
“The game against Memphis will have other implications,” Pearl said. “It will have (NCAA tournament) seeding implications. It will have implications for being on ‘College Gameday.’ And having so many national media there, there will be implications as far as where our program is at, and the potential for a No. 1 seed, and all of that.
“I don’t think you can compare any of that stuff to 41 years of SEC basketball. It just doesn’t compare, and I don’t think it compares with our guys. We will do everything we can to get ready for Auburn.”

-Wes Rucker, Times Free Press


Let's focus on the now folks...

Go Vols!!!

 

[crazyguy]

good stuff there.

 

[Cartervol]

We'll beat auburn bad. Tiger high,just foul them and we win by ten.

 

[myrobbins7]

We'll beat auburn bad. Tiger high,just foul them and we win by ten.

A few teams have try to pull that foul game with Tiger High. It doesn't work, they are to deep.

 

[bleedorangewhite]

i think we'll be able to shoot the lights out against auburn

 

[myrobbins7]

I hope UT beats Auburn by about 40 points..

 

[volinbham]

Well, they have the words and sentiment correct. Let's hope they believe what they are saying.

 

[volfan55]

Well, they have the words and sentiment correct. Let's hope they believe what they are saying.

Doubt it. And I bet the Memphi splayers feel the same way.

 

[utvolpj]

Doubt it. And I bet the Memphi splayers feel the same way.

What does Memphi have to do with it? Are they gonna play with rich,old white men?

 

[volfan55]

Dude, sorry about the typo...sometimes I get ahead of myself