Tennessee Volunteers at USC Trojans: open game thread

- USC transfer PG Mike Gerrity cleared waivers with the NCAA today, so he’ll play in his first game with the Trojans

- The #3 Lady Vols are also on the west coast today, currentlly trailing #2 Stanford 30-18 at halftime (also on FSN/SportSouth). We’ll be keeping an eye on the second half of that one here as well

Ladies can’t buy one from three, 1-9

just can’t cut into it

Trivia questions:

1. How long did it take me to get home from work yesterday? (It’s a 12-mile drive.)
2. How many cars were either ditched or abandoned along that same route this morning?

Xavier was up one with 38 seconds left. Butler got a questionable jump ball on the inbounds to get the ball back. On their possession, the ball was deflected into the backcourt but Butler got it back – the timekeeper stopped the clock at 14.7 during the play because they thought a foul was called, but it wasn’t, so they restarted it after a couple seconds. Butler missed a three, gets the rebound after a crazy scramble and hits a guy underneath for a wide open layup with 1.2 seconds left.

During the timeout, the refs go back and catch the clock stoppage, and after deliberating for five minutes, they take the remaining 1.2 seconds off the clock and say the game is over because the clock would’ve run out had it not been stopped on Butler’s layup. Butler wins, Xavier’s coach almost assaulted a referee trying to get off the floor as quickly as possible, and almost had an altercation between the teams in the postgame handshake. Crazy

first loss of the year…another teaching moment for Summitt

I have coverage of the game! No watching illegally online for me today!

we know who to blame if we lose

With a missed Chism three.

Looks about 35.

Run some clock, O’neil.

Maroon or white?

Real commercials! No infomercials, like on ESPNU!

Wyoming’s unis in HD…wow

Woo for him.

If it was here would say we’re going to score 16 points for the game.

It’s the repeater!

This is horrible.

I refuse to believe this was the gameplan going in

Is starting to look much more appealing.

both teams look a little sloppy but UT has the horses.

And how much weight do you have riding on it? I have Fresno St. and a confidence value of 28.

Good press, boys.

There will be an increase in the Entertainment Art Production major next semester, methinks

Can someone check into 44s eligibility?

That’s odd.

good lord

alright. lets keep up the pressure

no good ball movement

needed that one

About a third full, it looks like.

we won’t hang around for long

The last couple of games we’ve come out flat. We can’t afford to do this going into the SEC schedule.

where right now, I’m like “eh, we’ll come back.” But points are at such a premium…

Methinks there will be some halftime adjustments.

in the last 4:30

FG
USC 62%
UT 29%

FT
USC 57%
UT 40%

3PT
USC 50%
UT 15%

Rebounds: USC 24 – UT 5

I understand that O’Neill wants to slow things down. But how can he control the tempo when his team doesn’t have the ball? How does that work?

Best chance for a teamed named “Cowboys” to win today

can we play any worse in the second half?

needed to put on a tie at halftime.

Guys we really need to comeback and win this game. If we lose to a 4-4 USC team does anyone think we can beat Memphis on the road or even compete with Kansas. If we can’t beat Memphis, Kansas, or USC that would leave us with zero marquee nonconference wins. We need to win this game. I mean 24-7 on the boards that’s a joke. Chism and Smith have to step up for us to comeback

we’re getting outworked

we need to score here

…we look really bad today.

…the secret weapon.

when we can’t hit from the outside, how come we can’t do anything in the paint? i can understand a defense collapsing in on the paint, but it shouldn’t be that difficult

Prince hit both free throws. Maybe that’s a good sign.

on O’Neil.

cleaning up trash

from under the basket.

John Wall is going to eat us alive

Somebody needs to screen cap that picture of Carroll.

Will catch up later.

Evening, all.

can he not hit that mid-range jumper?

great hustle guys

they’re going to get tired…still plenty of time left for us to get out of our own way

we’re playing poorly and ignorantly

we have to be able to score even when we’re not shooting well. what is pearl’s back up plan? any screens? backdoor cuts? what??? its like we don’t even have any post players

we’ve got nobody who can knock down a three to make them do otherwise

they undoubtedly didn’t sleep well. That means that (a) this doesn’t have to be the tone for other big games in the season, and (b) it’s entirely their own fault.

Grabbing Twitter quotes for the postgame will probably tell the story.

seriously. they might put forward a better effort than this crap

this isn’t just our own offensive woes

they look like a bunch of quitters. no fight in them!

are you serious!!!!! he almost followed up his own foul shot!!!!!!

And I thought the game was tomorrow.

maybe send these guys a message

we need an inside player with more authority

We are getting outworked, out hustled, and just look like we don’t want to be here. This looks eerily similar to road games last year against teams we were better than (Temple, Ole Miss, Auburn,). I thought this team truly was better than last years team, but after today I’m convinced otherwise. I know we have heard a lot about how this team is closer and has strong leadership, but today is just embarrassing.

that Garrity guy is on some kind of amphetamine.

but today has just been disappointing

Chism uncontested

they get NC A&T at home on Wednseday, but overlooking Memphis just because Coach Cal isn’t there anymore was a bad idea beore today. We have to find leadership.

The Memphis game is huge, we desperately need a good nonconference win