TN vs KY [merged]

[UConnChapette]

Two double technicals, back to back. Samarie Walker called for one of them. Things getting a bit testy in this game.

 

[Blueballer]

Walker really lost her cool there. Not good in a close game.

 

[Vowelguy]

Very chippy. Two sets of double technicals.

 

[Vowelguy]

... but entertaining.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

Neither team displaying a coherent offense.........if it ain't a lay up it ain't going in, and more than 50% of those missed. Really want a Margo rant. Will the refs save Tenn?

 

[Vowelguy]

Simmons with her usual stellar game -- 5/16 (31%), 0 asst, 2 TOs

 

[Vowelguy]

Jordan Reynolds has come on for TN the last few games.

 

[Icebear]

Kentucky falling apart. No toughness.

 

[Vowelguy]

With Reynolds coming on and Simmons departing, TN should be a bunch better next year.

 

[UConnChapette]

Reynolds has been impressive.

 

[Blueballer]

Like the SFU game. The team with the lead for 99% of the game blows it.

 

[Vowelguy]

Peck saying to foul up 4?
Oi ve.

 

[Icebear]

Kentucky folded like an origami dove.

 

[Vowelguy]

LOL, Tenn with the one of the dumbest 10 seconds in the history of basketball. Trying for an epic collapse, but not enough time for them to do that.

 

[UConnCat]

Linnae Harper looked very shaky with the ball during the last several possessions for Kentucky.

 

[BRS24]

Why didn't TN pull all players away and let them take the 3? Then all they would have to do is inbound the ball?

 

[Vowelguy]

Why didn't TN pull all players away and let them take the 3?

Because they have lost their mind.

 

[Blueballer]

Why did she make the third one?

Those two teams deserve each other - a comedy of errors. Exciting game but poor basketball

 

[stwainfan]

Simmons got point 2,000. Reynolds is going to be great player.

 

[Icebear]

I think she tried to miss flat and hard just got a little too much height.

 

[UConnCat]

Comments from UK's Mitchell when asked about the activity/talking that led to the technicals. Number 11 is Burdick, btw.

I was talking to them before that, that 11 for Tennessee was starting that kind of activity in the game. If you don't get control of that, you get competitive players going, I mean, our players wanted to win today, but we certainly don't want that kind of activity going on.

So it's not the first time that's happened with that player. So you watch film. You see how players act. So I noticed it early on. It's a loud arena. It's a tough game. I guess they didn't see it.

But I kept talking to them. Finally it bowled over into what it was. Then you get into double technicals. You're trying to figure out who said something first. I'm pretty clear what was going on there. I hate our players lost composure. But it's real, real difficult in this kind of competitive environment. It should be stopped at the beginning of the activity. Unfortunately today it was not.

So I'm proud of our players and how they conducted themselves. But I was very disappointed in how that affected the game. I think it could have been stopped much earlier than it boiling over and affecting the game. Certainly got Samarie upset. Then DeNesha tried to have composure and walk away from the second incident.

That's not what I wanted to see in the SEC championship game. I'd rather see two teams play, not have a bunch of talking, yapping, unsportsmanlike conduct, but that's what it ended up being.