Tennessee (25) @ Louisiana St - 2/13/20

[Plebe]

You know the overall landscape better than I do, but I think if they lose to both A&M and Arkansas theyll drop a bit further and their resume gets weaker. At that point theyll need to rely on a win or 2 in the SEC tournament. 1-9 vs top 50 teams and a weak RPI puts them in a dangerous area IMO.

It's tough to say anything in isolation because many other teams that were apparently safe-ish are faltering badly. Right now teams like West Virginia, Rutgers and North Carolina are actually in a lot more trouble, and their recent slides are making life easier for other teams just inside the bubble.

 

[willtalk]

So why were they still ranked at 25?

 

[Bayareahusky]

Didn't see the game last night.... but 10 point loss to LSU who was without Mitchell not a good loss....

Also I saw that LSU guard got 10 rebounds..... Tenn a size advantage and shouldn't give up that many rebounds to a 5'8" player.....

I have been looking at battles between Tenn and UConn in late 90s and early 2000s.... looking at the fight in both teams.... Tenn does not have a lot of fight in them the last few years.... watching the 50 50 balls.... they do not seem to come up with a lot of them....

Kellie has to turn the burner up

 

[Geew1992]

Does anyone else think that Tennessee is no better than last season under Holly?

Considering KJ didn’t recruit this team, I wouldn’t expect anything less

 

[Gamecockfan77]

It's just Kellie's first year?

My mind was not working last night.

 

[DefenseBB]

So why were they still ranked at 25?

To quote Forrest Gump, “stupid is as stupid does”. The media voters are not doing their vigilance on their role to vote appropriately for deserving teams. No one thought NS State was really the #4 team in the country and NO ONE other than Deb Antonelli thought Louisville was the #1 ranked team. The committee by very definition has to look at RPI and overall record in the various quadrants to Pick and justify their selections.

 

[oldude]

Up until last night's game, there were 2 real positives about LV basketball this year vs last year. Specifically, KJH has been much better than HW in media interviews. She does not throw her team under the bus. The other positive is that, up until last night's game, TN won all the games they should have won. But as pointed out by other BY'ers, the loss to LSU, who was playing without their best player, is a bad loss. Given the fact that the LV's have not beaten anyone of note, there is a legitimate concern in Knoxville as to whether or not TN will be shut out of the Big Dance for the first time in forever, particularly if they stumble in the last few regular season games as well as the conference tournament.

What was unfortunate for TN is that last night they found a new way to lose a game. Turnovers and bad shooting have plagued the LV's in their previous losses this season. Last night they had only 12 turnovers and they didn't shoot the ball terribly. Against LSU, the LV's were outrebounded by a much smaller team and their defense had more holes in it than swiss cheese.