Tennessee Trailing Ole Miss

[toadfoot]

Tennesse looking lethargic at home against a simply dreadful Mississippi and trailing 33-30 at the half. I expect Tennessee to come back and win, but they look awful.

 

[HoopsFan21]

SEC halftime scores are what our AAC game scores are after the 1st quarter.

 

[EricLA]

Ole Miss is dreadful - 10-15 overall and 2-10 in their league. It would be like UCONN losing to SMU at half time. Yikes!

 

[EricLA]

Lordy - Tennessee escaped with a single digit win over a really bad Ole Miss team. It was a 1 point game with a few minutes left in the 4th quarter. They should drop in the rankings even tho they won. What a stinker of a game...

 

[CTtransplant]

DeShields had a nice game. No points, 0-4 shooting and 4 turnovers (tied with Cooper for tops on the team.)

She has to be the biggest disappointment of the season.

 

[Icebear]

TN terrible wins are as much a reason to downgrade their ranking as their losses.

 

[Zorro]

Wonder what ol' Delano will have to say about that.

 

[cockhrnleghrn]

Wonder what ol' Delano will have to say about that.

February 18, 2016 - a day that will live in infamy. Oops, wrong Delano.

 

[RSHERMVIKES]

In the post game Andy Landers said the TN win has to be looked at as a loss because of the team Mississippi is and TN had to battle back to win! TN should have destroyed that Ole Miss team!

 

[Bayareahusky]

yes Landers said also that Tennessee has not been playing inspired basketball this year and they need to start..... Nell Fortner noted as well that this is the time of year where improvement is shown in one's team, and Tennessee has shown no improvement.... OUCH!!! and that is from their own SEC station

 

[CocoHusky]

Any word on Mercedes injury?

 

[Fiftyish]

DeShields had a nice game. No points, 0-4 shooting and 4 turnovers (tied with Cooper for tops on the team.)

She has to be the biggest disappointment of the season.

Wow! DD is a turnover machine. Does not seem to be improving as the season comes to a close.

 

[Zorro]

Remember how disappointed we all were when DD rejected us for UNC?

 

[UcMiami]

I posted a comparison of stats from DD's freshman year and this year at TN a few weeks ago and nothing has changed except perhaps to get a little worse. They really are almost identical - the only difference being she is in a lower scoring offense so the raw numbers are less, but the percentage of team numbers, the ratio of assists to turnovers, the shooting percentages are all eerily similar. Her defense based on blocks and steals numbers is actually up this year while the offensive numbers are a little bit lower. And the team results aren't very different either, though I think UNC was a little better based on supporting cast. DD got all the publicity her freshman year, but she was very inefficient as a freshman producing at a lower rate than the team as a whole and far below most of her fellow freshman on that team.

That team was coach by Sylvia's assistant and I would guess the quality of coaching she has received in college is pretty minimal. Had she come to Uconn or gone to another well coached team (and taken the coaching) I think she would be a very different player than she is today - maybe a little less exciting, but a lot more disciplined.