Tennessee Volunteers at Mississippi State Bulldogs: open game thread
by Joel Hollingsworth on Mar 6, 2010 4:00 PM EST
in Tennessee Volunteer Basketball
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March 6, 2010 |
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22-7 (10-5)
#16 (AP) #13 (USA Today) |
21-9 (9-6)
NR (AP) NR (USA Today) |
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Jackson the Mule says . . .
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. . . beware the tall tree in the middle, guys!
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Leave your pre-, in-, and post-game thoughts below.
Go Vols! Hulk smash Bulldogs!
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South Carolina beat Vandy!
wooo! As long as we outperform Vandy in the SEC tournament. We ought to earn a higher seed than them. But that might be tough
purdue is in a close one
Penn St is at the line with the chance to cut it to 1. If so, it almost guaranteed they will have an opportunity to tie it at the end…
All I want for my birthday
is a Vols win!
I’ll probably only get to watch the first half live, because my kids are taking me out for dinner. Hopefully I can come back and watch the Vols win via DVR.
BTW, in Louisville, KY today, proudly wearing the orange.
"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone." A. Bartlett Giamatti
Thanks!
Yeah, none of that blood-orange for me! That looked like a fun game for the UL fans.
"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone." A. Bartlett Giamatti
What a day for Muse to come to Boston
I’ll miss both the Vols’ attempt to finish out 4-4 on the road and ETSU’s attempt to lock up an auto-bid. Have fun in the game thread, and GO VOLS (and Bucs)!
by Incipient_Senescence on Mar 6, 2010 5:21 PM EST reply actions
It's Muse...
I believe that is considered an obligation.
Hokies putting it on Georgia Tech
VT will lock it up if they can hold this 12 point lead with 10 to play on the road
Winthrop up 4...
with ~8 left…
First bid up for grabs.
missed free throw, but Ole Miss rebounds
and Chris Warren buries a three to give the Rebels their first lead of the day – 66-65 Rebs, 10-0 Ole Miss run, :53 to play
and no one can hit a free throw
Ole Miss hits 1/2, Arkansas hits 1/2, and we’re back where we started
Great block at the rim
and Washington can’t hit the follow…Ole Miss finishes the game on a 12-1 run, wins 68-66. We’ll see them Friday
Well we will be facing a hungry Ole Miss team on Friday
a win over us might get them in the tourney.
It's simple Cubs in the spring and summer, Vols in the fall and winter.
Yeah...that's a problem
We were lucky to escape them the first time. I would’ve much rather played Arkansas again.
Now...I may bet overly cautious/superstitious
But can we maybe NOT talk about seeing Ole Miss on Friday? We do have a history of sucking immensely in the SEC Tournament, ya know? Let’s win tonight and then focus on LSU on Thursday…
Okay good point
I am done talking about Ole Miss. Mississippi State then LSU
It's simple Cubs in the spring and summer, Vols in the fall and winter.
looks like we are going to
have to start our game on ESPN 360, still 6 min to go in Texas-Baylor game. And come on Arkansas.
It's simple Cubs in the spring and summer, Vols in the fall and winter.
Bertlekamp says
more energy and emotion in the building than he’s ever seen in Starkville…on the starting lineups now
Well outside of Rupp
we have not fared to well in big time road games. Vandy, Florida, Georgia all weren’t good road performances. Time to stop that trend right now.
It's simple Cubs in the spring and summer, Vols in the fall and winter.
Hopson getting booed viciously every time he touches it
after decommitting from State to come here…this is his first trip to Starkville
Yeah they are all over Hopson
It's simple Cubs in the spring and summer, Vols in the fall and winter.
5-0 now
Vol network audio appears to be a little behind the ESPN scoreboard, but Hopson scored inside
We skunked 'em!
A 7-0 start, apparently. What in the world could we possibly have to review in a 15-point game with 41 seconds left?
By the way where is everyone else
It’s just Will, VolnVa, and myself
It's simple Cubs in the spring and summer, Vols in the fall and winter.
First good weather weekend in about four months for some people
We’ve got 41 degrees here and I’m in short sleeves
Look at Kenny Hall!
being all authoritative on Varnado…13-0, best we’ve played at the start of a game BY FAR
Goodness.
I was going to take a peek at the Kentucky/MSU women’s game for a scouting report, but I’ve been waiting for this MSU to score once.
Hopson rushed that 3
and then they hit one…this will be a great test in maintaining focus and valuing possessions, a great lesson to learn before the tournament
Somebody said the right thing to Kenny Hall today
and Goins is becoming automatic on that foul line j
He's taking some load off Chism
I don’t see any way we can play Wayne 30 minutes 3 or 4 days in a row next week, so Hall stepping up now is big
Oh, Pajamas...
Good Pajamas = steal…Bad Pajamas = run to the rim with no prospects of legitimately making the basket
A dunk from BWill!
Glad to see that because I was starting to think that since the 17-0 start, we weren’t taking advantage of the MSU sloppiness.
Bad Pajamas v3
I’ll give him some benefit of the doubt because the shot clock was winding down…but ugh.
See, we're settling for quick threes now
we’re 1-8 from three and killing them…that should tell us to cut that out
This is what I'm saying
We will get bitten if we’re not focused on Thursday. Heck, we almost lost to them the first time…
I agree we shouldn't overlook them
however, they’re the worst SEC team in recent memory…that game today was tied at 20 at halftime. We SHOULD destroy them, and I hope that’s what we see.
I wholeheartedly agree
But I’ve become disillusioned by 24 years of general suckage in the SEC Tournament.
Swipa is playing the 4
probably because of Chism…Skylar hasn’t played and got only 3 minutes against Arkansas
We didn't lose any of the lead
38-21 at the half after Cam Tatum gets an oreb and a putback at the buzzer.
He is honest
just a brutal 1st half for them, great for us though.
It's simple Cubs in the spring and summer, Vols in the fall and winter.
Lady Vols scouting report:
At the under 4, MSU leads Kentucky 29-24 in a very ugly game. There are 26 combined rebounds and both teams have primary players in foul trouble.
Either way, it looks like the winner is going to wear themselves out in the process, as both teams are running like crazy. (Part of that is constantly chasing turnovers.)
Halftime stats of note:
FG
UT 17 of 34, 50.0%
MSU 6 of 25, 24.0%
FT
UT 3 of 6, 50.0%
MSU 6 of 11, 54.5%
3PT
UT 1 of 9, 11.1%
MSU 3 of 12, 25.0%
Reb 22-16 UT (5-4 oreb UT)
Turnovers 8-5 MSU (7 UT steals)
Every Tennessee player has scored…except Chism
Also, check this out:
Varnado 3 pts 4 rebs, 1 of 3 FG, 1 of 6 FT
Chism hasn’t played with 2 fouls and 0 points
Brian Williams: 4 points 8 rebounds
Kenny Hall: 6 points 4 rebounds
So after Chism leaves,
Williams and Hall will replace him with those kind of numbers? I’d call that ‘headband by committee’.
I have no idea what got into Kenny
we didn’t see anything like this in the month of February, I assumed he’d hit the freshman wall…but he’s been the best offensive post player on the floor tonight
seriously
in the segment about Woolridge and his music, ABC used a basketball with a Lady Vols logo on it
That's such good defense by Pearl
if the guy isn’t 4-6 inches taller than he is, he can really frustrate them
This is what I was saying the other night
His effort is so good…if he developed a little offense, he could be a legitimately good player.
I feel bad for Stansbury
as they’re saying, MSU had very little to do with this ruling. Stansbury has made State an above average team for as long as he’s been there, but they’ve never made any real noise in March and they’ve flaming out here down the stretch. He needs someting to go right.
Good grief
He shot that from the “I” on the MSU logo…now a dunk by Varnado. I don’t like the defensive effort of this group on the floor.
Every time they have had a chance to cut it to single digits, we've responded
I like the move to get Weezy and JP back in there…Weezy blocked.
I'm just parroting the commentators
But again, they had the ball down 11, missed, and we came back with a bucket.
52-39 Vols at the under 12
gave one away on the rebound there, but still in good shape…State is about to go into all-three pointer mode
We've been able to maintain a comfortable lead
But we can’t quite put them away. I’d love to go on a run and dispose of them.
Lead back down to 11
We just can’t quite put them away. We’re still in good shape as long as we stay poised here.
Offensively
this has turned into the Prince & Hopson driving to the basket show…16 for JP, 12 for Scotty, no one else has more than 6
Smart move by Weezy
Gets the block, runs out, but doesn’t force anything. Results in a BMaze layup. Back to 17. Great response by the men in orange.
I wish they would show that crying MSstate fan again
Living in Alabama is like living 50 years in the past, they are still just as racist, just as educated, the state constitution forbids any kind of public transportation, and all they can talk about is Bear Bryant
These guys can't be too pissed at the refs
they’ve called 6 more fouls on us, they’ve shot 7 more free throws
With 10:30 to go in the women's game (UK/MSU),
both teams have 15 fouls apiece. The difference is that all 15 of MSU’s are on their starters.
And Vanderbilt
Nice to hear :) I think Vandy got all their sucking out today against South Carolina…at least that’s what I’ll tell myself.
Certainly they're playing better now than their average seasonal body of work.
And if that’s enough to get them into the 4-seedish conversation, why not?
thanks.
I’ll take a peek. Though I feel bad for the guy, especially after he saw his scholarship to to waste.
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