NASHVILLE — It's been fun being the University of Tennessee men's basketball team the past few weeks. No pressure. Few expectations. Pleasant surprise after pleasant surprise.
But after nine wins in 10 games, after feel-great home triumphs over Kentucky, Florida and Missouri -- not to mention that four-overtime triumph at Texas A&M -- in the past 28 days, the Volunteers' role is reversed against Alabama today.
If they beat the Crimson Tide for the second time in three tries at 3:30 EDT this afternoon in their Southeastern Conference tournament quarterfinal in the Bridgestone Arena, it's hard to see the Big Orange being left out of the Big Dance.
Already returned to ESPN bracketologist Joe Lunardi's coveted "Last Four In" quartet before Thursday's 69-53 win over Mississippi State, Tennessee would seem to seal its spot with a victory over the Tide. That should be the case for any team reaching an SEC tourney semifinal having won 10 of its last 11 contests against league opponents.
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Comments » 3
mocsandvolsfan writes:
What? No readers? Wake up people. The Times Free Press needs you.hehe
Wiedmer did a good job analyzing the desparation of UT. Well he didn't say that but we are a little bit desparate and that's good.
A little bit.
Just play ball. It's too late to do anything else much. Someone said on a post to play half court. I guess but don't think too much about it. Take care of the ball, great defense, REBOUND, make free throws, have fun. PLAY BALL within what we know we can do.
The only thing I'd let the players worry about is ball control. SHARP passing. None of this sloppy stuff we saw return a little yesterday.
We're good. GBO BEAT BAMA!!!
peerless1 writes:
lol obviously The guys in orange dont want this enuff-good luck in the NIT.
stevefrommemphis writes:
Going to be interesting to see what excuse the NCAA uses to put Wiedmer's beloved Kentucky Wildcats in the tournament - the team that can't beat anybody outside Corrupt Arena.
Kentucky will go for TV ratings. 1% of the country wants to see them win & 99% want to see them get beat by 50 - but everybody will watch the Kats.
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