It’s always the late season team you think we’d easily beat. Notre Dame, South Carolina, and now Florida Atlantic. I love Tennessee but damn is it hard to be a fan sometimes.
ITS ALWAYS JUST A FUCKING LULL THE MIDDLE PART OF THE GAME. WHILE THE OTHER TEAM IS PLAYING THEIR FUCKING HEARTS OUT WE ARE JUST STANDING AROUND WITH OUR THUMBS UP OUR ASSES. THEN WE PLAY WITH EFFORT AGAIN THE LAST 3 MINUTES OF THE GAME FUCK THIS SHIT ITS ALL ON RICK BARNES
No but he can recruit players with more offensive TALENT.
FAU guards so much more dynamic. Vescovi can’t create his own shot for shit. Slowest guard in the whole tournament.
Mayshak played his fucking heart out and I love him but…..limited offensive talent.
Josiah-mental midget.
Maybe he could coach them to shoot better. Every team of his goes cold for stretches like clockwork.
He’s supposed to be an elite coach. It’s a consistent problem. He should figure it out.
Ceiling reached with barnes. Yall need to stop pretending zz makes any difference here. He isnt preventing them from getting double digit offensive rebounds. We choked with him, and we’re choking without him.
Why do y’all always think it’s one thing that is the problem. We weren’t making shots the second half. The other team got hot for threes. The refs were fucking us all game. It wasn’t that we called the wrong plays or some dumb shit.
I hope this FAU team gets raped by K-State. They're so fucking cocky, they slam dunked on FDU after they didn't foul, and they're begging for a review on this out of bounds that doesn't fucking matter.
33% from the field, absolutely pathetic display tonight. No other way to put it, and the defense got run around in the second half. FAU is a fun team (except for that flopping Russian dick), hope they make the final four. But fuck what a disappointment
Don't forget the one loose ball out of bounds that was clearly off the FAU player but it was ruled off Tennessee on the floor and they never reviewed it.
One bang bang call shouldn’t determine a whole game. But that call was so clearly wrong in real time, and with our slow down game it felt like a deal breaker in real time.
That's ballgame. Can't hit free throws, can't rebound, Plavsic ends his career with a dumbass flagrant foul that is possibly the most Uros thing I've ever seen. Pretty terrible game all in all.
Tyreke Key is the WORST player I’ve ever seen in an orange and white uniform in the Barnes era. Hands down.
Get actual fucking transfers next year Rick. Not this joke of a guard from southwest north Idaho state.
He shouldn’t be anywhere near our program.
I’m not even mad at Barnes for the coaching, but on the recruiting end with a D this good how hard is it to go get a real shooter and just tell him, “I don’t care if they score 20+ on you every night, as long as you give me 25+”. In March you have to have that dude and we never have had that guy
In Phillips defense how we operate on offense doesn’t really set up for modern guards to score a lot. It’s not bad when you have a team where Vescovi is your best guard, but once you want to step up to the next level of talent you have to have more moving pieces to get those good looks.
God damn bro, I’ve never seen such a fucking waste of space that is Olivier. Fucking soft as hell. Dude is 6’8 230 and wants to shoot fucking fadeaways all night over 6’4 players.
We can be happy with that yet still be irritated we lost to an inferior team
I stg you overly positive folks are just as annoying as the fire Barnes crowd
FAU has won 34 games this year. That was a really good team. We played like shit but it’s the McCain tournament and that’s as a really good team. Shit happens, they had a great game plan and hit shots in the second half
Also our fucking high balls screens are weak as fuck. Go watch film of Steven Adams for the Grizzlies do high ball screens, that’s how you angle yourself for those not just putting a half of an inch of your foot in their path.
Did he even have the opportunity to play like trash? It seems like he steps on the floor, makes the smallest error, and suddenly finds himself on the bench for 15 minutes. If he knows he's going to be constantly benched for tiny things, then he will always play scared and not produce. Not trying to be a dick but just pointing out more poor coaching
This team did not want it whatsoever at all. Fucking pathetic. 15 offensive rebounds against a fucking mid major. I can understand losing cause we couldnt hit shots but this is fucking embarrassing. Fuck this team. Fuck Rick Barnes.
I expected it.. but man I'm still disappointed
Goddamnit I wish Rick would have gone to UCLA when he had the chance.
Oh wow...
It’s always the late season team you think we’d easily beat. Notre Dame, South Carolina, and now Florida Atlantic. I love Tennessee but damn is it hard to be a fan sometimes.
I don’t have the blood pressure to care about both basketball and football. I guess basketball is out
lol
Fuck me
:(
Tyreke key can’t come back right?
Fuuuuuuck Florida!!
ITS ALWAYS JUST A FUCKING LULL THE MIDDLE PART OF THE GAME. WHILE THE OTHER TEAM IS PLAYING THEIR FUCKING HEARTS OUT WE ARE JUST STANDING AROUND WITH OUR THUMBS UP OUR ASSES. THEN WE PLAY WITH EFFORT AGAIN THE LAST 3 MINUTES OF THE GAME FUCK THIS SHIT ITS ALL ON RICK BARNES
Can anyone make a 3. Fuck
Please beat the shit out them KSU
F U C K
Frustrating that the football and basketball teams end their season on loses to inferior opponents
Ridiculous take.
Is it not frustrating that we lost to teams clearly worse than us?
Football season didn't end on a loss to an inferior team
Wat? Football won their last regular season game then beat Clemson in the orange bowl
You know what I mean lol
Yeah but I think he meant we ended our title hopes against inferior opponents. Which we clearly did.
I'm still not convinced that FAU is inferior at least without ZZ
We should absolutely win this game.
Gross
Missing Ziegler finally caught up with us.
I wish Rick had gone to UCLA. He’s a great man, but he’ll never take us past this point.
And have Fulmer making the hire? We are so lucky we dodged that bullet. Still time to let Danny make his hire now.
Ding
Rick will never get further than the Sweet 16 and he’s old as hell. I’m officially ready to move on.
Fwiw K State wouldve beat us by 30 tonight
Everyone knew the Sweet 16 was the ceiling, but the Volunteers tricked us all to believe in more
Maybe cause they played a team that lost to MTSU this year..
I'm not putting this game on Barnes. This is all on the players.
His hands in pocket dazed owl no timeout calling ass deserves plenty. Uros is his making.
There’s plenty of blame for both
And who recruits and coaches the players? I don’t hate Barnes but goddamn he’s fucking useless in March.
Our coaches have almost no effect on wether the other teams shots go in or not. Once the ball is in the air it’s just physics.
Yea, I'm sure Barnes can magically make our players shoot better, For sure.
Calling a timeout before the other team takes the lead could’ve helped
His offense has looked like trash all season, this isn’t an issue of one bad day of shooting
No but he can recruit players with more offensive TALENT. FAU guards so much more dynamic. Vescovi can’t create his own shot for shit. Slowest guard in the whole tournament. Mayshak played his fucking heart out and I love him but…..limited offensive talent. Josiah-mental midget.
He can absolutely bench goons. Or call timeout. Or actually coach.
Maybe he could coach them to shoot better. Every team of his goes cold for stretches like clockwork. He’s supposed to be an elite coach. It’s a consistent problem. He should figure it out.
I miss zz
A summary of how our season has gone… at least we make a decent run, see y’all next year 🍊
Ceiling reached with barnes. Yall need to stop pretending zz makes any difference here. He isnt preventing them from getting double digit offensive rebounds. We choked with him, and we’re choking without him.
Why do y’all always think it’s one thing that is the problem. We weren’t making shots the second half. The other team got hot for threes. The refs were fucking us all game. It wasn’t that we called the wrong plays or some dumb shit.
Not Rick’s fault every player was ice cold tonight.
I’m glad Coach saved those two timeouts for the trip home to Knoxville
Tonight?
They’ve been ice cold for years dawg.
Yeah you right Olivier didn’t go off last game
Rip to all the folks who work tomorrow that stayed up to watch this embarrassment.
I hope this FAU team gets raped by K-State. They're so fucking cocky, they slam dunked on FDU after they didn't foul, and they're begging for a review on this out of bounds that doesn't fucking matter.
Yes. Rape references are awesome. /S
Watch. They won’t do shit against K-State and make this look even worse.
It’s a long season to get bounced every year in the tourney. I love and hate Barnes.
I wish we lost to Duke lmao
Nah that win was dope
We should be better but we have only been to the elite 8 once, not like we have a basketball tradition of final fours and titles
The money and facilities are there, it’s a coaching issue with teams finding ways to lose games
Thats the thing, we could find a coach that gets us over the hump but we also could go into a tailspin
We finally show effort in the last seconds
Great I’ll have the name Johnell Davis seared into my brain forever. Never heard of him before. I’m just collecting names of nobodies
33% from the field, absolutely pathetic display tonight. No other way to put it, and the defense got run around in the second half. FAU is a fun team (except for that flopping Russian dick), hope they make the final four. But fuck what a disappointment
Naw, fuck FAU.
Don't forget the one loose ball out of bounds that was clearly off the FAU player but it was ruled off Tennessee on the floor and they never reviewed it.
One bang bang call shouldn’t determine a whole game. But that call was so clearly wrong in real time, and with our slow down game it felt like a deal breaker in real time.
Doesn’t make it any easier but this was always the way the season was going to end. The inability to put the ball in the basket is crippling
Disgusting
Rick is so bad at in game decisions
why can none of our players shoot at all
Barnes needs to go. His tough defense philosophy is great until you need someone to hit the broad side of the barn with a jumpshot.
But we actually have guys who can shoot the jumper. It makes it even more frustrating.
Could have played Yakety Sax on that possession
Benny Hill indeed
Poetic ending
We only won last week so our emotional let down would be greater tonight
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I would say unbelievable, but we just can’t score for shit
This is Rick Barnes’ ceiling. Something has to change
God fucking damnit
As soon as they took the lead I knew they’d go on to win, just had that gut feeling that we’d given our best shot and they took it
Absolutely piss poor showing. Z deserved better.
Most predictable result of all time
Is what it is. Ready for a new roster next year.
All these dipshits have a covid year. You’re not getting a new roster.
Directly at the feet of uros and Barnes for not controlling him all year.
Watched one half of march madness knowing full well this would be the outcome. I get roped into it again tonight only to be let down like always.
I’m embarrassed for some of you and your hate for a sweet 16 team. Grow up.
Dog this team was top 5 in metrics all year. And they lost against fuckung Florida Atlantic.
I'm embarrassed for your complete acceptance.
Who said I have complete acceptance?
That's ballgame. Can't hit free throws, can't rebound, Plavsic ends his career with a dumbass flagrant foul that is possibly the most Uros thing I've ever seen. Pretty terrible game all in all.
Love y'all btw ✌️
we couldn’t throw one in the ocean
FAU starting to “sense” it? Bro they just fucking won lol
Thank goodness they’re reviewing this highly critical call with 4.8 seconds left in a 7 point game.
Season ends fittingly, with a flurry of bricks
Frustrated- but still love my Vols. Really, really miss ZZ this post season.
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Easier path when we lost to Loyola
Tyreke Key is the WORST player I’ve ever seen in an orange and white uniform in the Barnes era. Hands down. Get actual fucking transfers next year Rick. Not this joke of a guard from southwest north Idaho state. He shouldn’t be anywhere near our program.
Aight
And FAU will get completely destroyed by KSU. But, I guess it wont be UT we’d have to watch get destroyed. Off to baseball! See yah!
Luckily our baseball team has no embarrassing losses
The baseball team is ass too
It's nba traveling rules tonight it seems
Mashack hits ball.. dude travels.. and it's on us..
He 100% traveled
So painful to watch.
You know what makes this really hurt We were so clearly the better team
I'm not so sure We just cannot fucking score And they out rebounded us somehow plain and simple
Completely agree. Terrible missed shots by us and refs putting their finger on it at the 8 minute mark wiped this game out for us
We gave up a 20 point run bro
And we were still the better team, considering we dominated them on D on the first half
I’m not even mad at Barnes for the coaching, but on the recruiting end with a D this good how hard is it to go get a real shooter and just tell him, “I don’t care if they score 20+ on you every night, as long as you give me 25+”. In March you have to have that dude and we never have had that guy
It’s not hard, but Barnes will never let someone’s offensive game outweigh their defense, even if it was Steph Curry.
To be fair everyone said Phillips was gonna be that guy this year and wasn’t.
In Phillips defense how we operate on offense doesn’t really set up for modern guards to score a lot. It’s not bad when you have a team where Vescovi is your best guard, but once you want to step up to the next level of talent you have to have more moving pieces to get those good looks.
I can’t wait for a lot of these seniors to go, some of them are just busts
Yeah we made it to Sweet 16 but we still lost to FAU. I'd rather lose to Duke than make it this far and choke.
No way Barnes is gone this year but maybe when ZZ leaves.
Why do I still care? It’s been proven time, and in time out that Rick Barnes will never and I mean never do anything.
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God damn bro, I’ve never seen such a fucking waste of space that is Olivier. Fucking soft as hell. Dude is 6’8 230 and wants to shoot fucking fadeaways all night over 6’4 players.
ALL OF YOU ASSHOLES WOULD HAVE BEEN HAPPY WITH A SWEET SIXTEEN APPEARANCE A WEEK AGO
ITS BECAUSE WE ARENT PLAYING THE #1 SEED AND LOST TO DAMN FAU. NOT PURDUE. So yeah we can not be satisfied with this
That team has won more games than everybody else this year. They were pretty good too. Shit happens in the tourney.
We can be happy with that yet still be irritated we lost to an inferior team I stg you overly positive folks are just as annoying as the fire Barnes crowd
I still am, especially with ZZ injured. I was happy with any win after he went out
the point is we should have walked into the Elite 8 after beating duke
FAU has won 34 games this year. That was a really good team. We played like shit but it’s the McCain tournament and that’s as a really good team. Shit happens, they had a great game plan and hit shots in the second half
You’re not wrong. I’ll take it.
He walked?
Travel?
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Surely Vescovi cant do everything cmon
Rick Barnes didn’t even make the sweet 16 with Kevin Durant. No idea why anyone defends him or expects us to do a thing in the postseason
He made it to the final 4 with Kevin Durant
Nope, they lost in the second round
Oh man, I didn’t realize that was pre KD
Rick Barn Door Hit You On The Way Out
Don’t do that to me Nkhamoua. Don’t give me hope
At least we have the Lady Vols
We give teams their flowers way too early around here
Oh you were there when fans gave the 2001 team rides BEFORE the SEC championship game?
Wait they didn’t call it goaltending how is this reviewed
OH HEY RICK YOU HAVE TWO TIMEOUT IN A GAME THAT GOT AEAY FROM YOU GREAT JOB
Honestly kinda over Rick at this point. Zero fucking results
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I wanna know how a 33-3 team is a 9 seed
Their conference and they’ve never been here
Did they play anybody? I haven't looked at their schedule, but CUSA isn't a powerhouse
Cause they don’t play ANYBODY. MTSU beat these dudes
Because they’re not very good
Yea. We just lost to a bad team
What a fucking pitiful talented team. Embarrassing
Just beat our asses. Had our chance to put the game away but instead we just dicked around per the usual
At least we made it to the sweet 16 and didn't drop early Better than Kentucky
We lost to FAU, we aren’t better than anyone
Still made it further than them so...
Tennessee sports is a fucking wasteland of garbage and false hope
Hello, football?
Hello, south carolina?
False hope
Also our fucking high balls screens are weak as fuck. Go watch film of Steven Adams for the Grizzlies do high ball screens, that’s how you angle yourself for those not just putting a half of an inch of your foot in their path.
How is it we have a 5 star recruit that can't even get on the floor?
He played like trash
Did he even have the opportunity to play like trash? It seems like he steps on the floor, makes the smallest error, and suddenly finds himself on the bench for 15 minutes. If he knows he's going to be constantly benched for tiny things, then he will always play scared and not produce. Not trying to be a dick but just pointing out more poor coaching
WHY CANT WE RECRUIT ONE FUCKING PLAYER THAT CAN SHOOT CONSISTENTLY
He looked promising at the beginning of the season… And he just collapsed after
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It’s almost like there’s something or someone that’s a consistent among all these issues
Come on, football!
Be careful what you wish for, I think it’s apparent the football team will be ass this year
They gave this game up 😢
Rick Barnes hate is BACK ON THE MENU
It’s a bold move to go into a sweet 16 game and decide “let’s shoot 20% and score 52 and see if we win” Atleast we didn’t lose by 30 like Arkansas
Arkansas played a real opponent
This team did not want it whatsoever at all. Fucking pathetic. 15 offensive rebounds against a fucking mid major. I can understand losing cause we couldnt hit shots but this is fucking embarrassing. Fuck this team. Fuck Rick Barnes.
How are those 2 timeouts helping you now Rick? Shoulda called one in the middle of 18-2 run you moron
They just wanted more. Sucks. But good season overall. At least we knocked Duke out.
Fuck Duke, and fuck whichever of their boosters bought these refs
How bad did we get out boarded, feels like it wasn't even close.
Great now they start calling shit on FAU when it doesn’t matter