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SEC Men’s Basketball 2024-2025: Somebody has to be the 16th seed in Nashville

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zeigler back for the 2H. hallelujah. he deserves a healthy finish to his college career.

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kentucky up 55-44 with 11:51 left. playing from behind not tennessee’s strong suit. 

this is why tennessee has to play with a lead. they’ve missed what has to be 15+ wide open, in-rhythm threes. milicic is 4-7, the rest of the team is 6-31 including 1-9 from zeigler and 2-8 from lanier.

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Probably shouldn’t give them 8 tries for that three 

11-44 from deep for tennessee, and it feels like virtually none of them were contested.

44 (!!) is insane 

Finally I can go to bed! 
 

Huge win given the circumstances with the pg. 

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I’m lazy as it pertains to Rick Barnes, but it seems like this is typical shit with his team. I know they went to the Elite 8 last year, but it just seems like they mostly wind up being better in early January than any time in March. 

Watching the ATM/OU game, does anyone know why the aggies are in pink in January? I thought the pink shit was for Mother’s Day weekend and October. I know it’s related to breast cancer, just seems like an odd time. 

11 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

I’m lazy as it pertains to Rick Barnes, but it seems like this is typical shit with his team. I know they went to the Elite 8 last year, but it just seems like they mostly wind up being better in early January than any time in March. 

they’ve been playing over their heads all year. it’s what he does. they have no nba talent, their best player is a midget who can’t shoot, they have no depth, and it’s basically a roster full of role players, and yet he had them at no.1 for a month, has them currently at 17-4, and they’re probably the best defensive team in america.

rick barnes’s entire reputation is based on people who either never watch his teams and know nothing about them, or who do watch and don’t understand why/how a roster that isn’t that great to begin with starts losing more games in conference play. i’ve been saying all season that i can’t believe they’ve won as much as they have. our roster >> tennessee’s roster. 

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7 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

I’m lazy as it pertains to Rick Barnes, but it seems like this is typical shit with his team. I know they went to the Elite 8 last year, but it just seems like they mostly wind up being better in early January than any time in March. 

Watching the ATM/OU game, does anyone know why the aggies are in pink in January? I thought the pink shit was for Mother’s Day weekend and October. I know it’s related to breast cancer, just seems like an odd time. 

 Breast cancer awareness month is in October, but the season hasn’t started.

Most teams in both men’s and women’s usually start the pink around this time for a few weeks. It’s been the standard around this time for at least a decade if not more. What’s throwing you off is the A&M jerseys. You usually don’t see a men’s team do pink on the jerseys like you do the women. Men usually do something small like the refs usually do pink whistles or lanyards and men do pink towels, shoelaces, or headbands. 

There was a try to get the men’s to switch to doing prostate cancer awareness instead of breast cancer, but it never took off. 

30 minutes ago, Derka said:

they’ve been playing over their heads all year. it’s what he does. they have no nba talent, their best player is a midget who can’t shoot, they have no depth, and it’s basically a roster full of role players, and yet he had them at no.1 for a month, has them currently at 17-4, and they’re probably the best defensive team in america.

rick barnes’s entire reputation is based on people who either never watch his teams and know nothing about them, or who do watch and don’t understand why/how a roster that isn’t that great to begin with starts losing more games in conference play. i’ve been saying all season that i can’t believe they’ve won as much as they have. our roster >> tennessee’s roster. 

I know Tennessee is only like 7 or 8 deep, and I watch plenty of basketball, but it just feels like they’re a first weekend special this season. Whoever they’re playing in the round of 32, I’m taking the other team in my bracket. Unless it’s Texas or ATM, of course. 

Just now, closetojumping said:

I know Tennessee is only like 7 or 8 deep, and I watch plenty of basketball, but it just feels like they’re a first weekend special this season. Whoever they’re playing in the round of 32, I’m taking the other team in my bracket. Unless it’s Texas or ATM, of course. 

yeah i do not like this tennessee team in the tourney. i’d be very surprised if they made the second weekend.

2 hours ago, Js1 said:

44 (!!) is insane 

Even in a 48min NBA game, with shorter shot clocks, that's a lot

Alabama/MSST should be a good one tonight. MSST -1.5

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ZZ is the kind of college hoops star that has become more and more rare over the years. a star who will always be associated with the college game + only one school. easiest guy to root for in all of cbb for me.

no zeigler or milicic today for tennessee. i’m sick that i didn’t put more money on UF ML. 

Just now watching, what’s the story on their absence? Zig still banged up from UK game? 

Just now, Underdog said:

Just now watching, what’s the story on their absence? Zig still banged up from UK game? 

yeah zeigler is out with his knee injury and milicic woke up sick today. and yet tennessee, who’s lost 3 of 4 and lost 73-43 to florida like two weeks ago, is up by 10 with 13:20 to go. i’m not feeling so sick anymore lol.

ok thank god i didn’t know that tennessee was going to be so shorthanded lol. the more i watch this team, the less i’m able to predict what they’re going to do next. this is shocking lol. tennessee up 55-35 with 5:54 to go. that defense is smothering.

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Whoop de doo for Tenn 

Good bounce back win for Big Orange. 
 

Mizzou putting a hurtin’ on Miss St in 2H, 71-45. 
 

Might have to take a couple naps in order to stay up and watch TFC’s lovefest tonight. 
 

 

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On 1/28/2025 at 9:27 PM, closetojumping said:

I’m lazy as it pertains to Rick Barnes, but it seems like this is typical shit with his team. I know they went to the Elite 8 last year, but it just seems like they mostly wind up being better in early January than any time in March. 

Watching the ATM/OU game, does anyone know why the aggies are in pink in January? I thought the pink shit was for Mother’s Day weekend and October. I know it’s related to breast cancer, just seems like an odd time. 

 

On 1/28/2025 at 9:37 PM, Derka said:

they’ve been playing over their heads all year. it’s what he does. they have no nba talent, their best player is a midget who can’t shoot, they have no depth, and it’s basically a roster full of role players, and yet he had them at no.1 for a month, has them currently at 17-4, and they’re probably the best defensive team in america.

rick barnes’s entire reputation is based on people who either never watch his teams and know nothing about them, or who do watch and don’t understand why/how a roster that isn’t that great to begin with starts losing more games in conference play. i’ve been saying all season that i can’t believe they’ve won as much as they have. our roster >> tennessee’s roster. 

I have not watched Barnes teams closely since he left Texas. But one thing I noticed that he always did in the last 4-5 minutes of close games was to slow down the pace significantly, put the ball in the hands of one person, and rely heavily on that person to either score or distribute the ball to someone for a shot, usually late in the shot clock. 

He did this even when they had significant talent advantages in a game. That approach causes losses at times in games they otherwise should have been able to win by simply out-talenting the other team down the stretch. Of course, that approach also wins some games. It makes his teams more unpredictable in the tournament. 

the toughest part for a typical barnes team in the tourney is that they can’t play from behind without a TJ Ford, Dalton Knecht, J’Covan Brown, etc. this team of his has nobody like that, as is the case with most of his teams. but that’s the sacrifice you make when your entire philosophy revolves around trying to be the best defensive team in the country. it’s also why he likes to slow it down like that, which is solid in theory. you lessen the number of possessions and keep playing the defense you’ve been playing all night and in theory you wrap up the win. i understand why he does it, same as i understand fans’ frustrations when it doesn’t work.

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it’s really hard to get to the FF this way, but you’re going to win a ton of games and be consistently good-great more often than 95% of other programs. i wish more fans of his teams would appreciate that. tennessee fans incessantly bitch about barnes, but if he left that program at the end of the year i have a very strong feeling that lots of faces would soon be eaten by leopards all over knoxville shortly thereafter.

1 hour ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

good lord Auburn/Ole Miss took 30 min to play 5

Beard didnt look at all petty and unhinged when he was screeching at the refs down 8 with :08 left.

2 minutes ago, CurlyDumps said:

Beard didnt look at all petty and unhinged when he was screeching at the refs down 8 with :08 left.

Had the ref broken his glasses?

Kentucky is pretty good at home but they have major issues on the road/neutral court. About to be 4-5 in those games and really should have a couple more losses. 

12 minutes ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

I killed Vandy. 

Thank you.  Fuckers would not go away - until they did.  I will take that W after the Tennessee loss, and I was nervous as hell the first half 

About time to scotch and vape and watch Auburn take it to the dirt burglars.  

All them Auburn boys is tall…

16 minutes ago, Pancho said:

Never thought I’d see the day where Auburn and Alabama are arguably the 2 best teams in the country and legit NC contenders in….basketball. 

Well that’s because we are in the upside down. 

for a team that’s arguably the biggest, strongest, and best in america, auburn players sure are flopping a lot.

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as of now dennis gates is the runaway favorite for NCOY. just lol at this:

Mizzou 2024:

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Mizzou 2025:

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unbelievable turnaround, especially considering the strength of the 2025 sec.

I bet you could copy/paste 80% of what Mizzou fans said about Gates last year and it would match up to the Fire RT thread 

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