UT looks terrible. 

Houston leads Tennessee 34-15 at the half. Tennessee is shooting 21% from the field and 7% from 3 and 50% from the line. Houston is not burning the nets by any means they are just shooting 42% from the field and just 30% from 3, They do have 16 points in the paint and 8 points off of the Vols turnovers. I think this one is over for a couple of reasons: 1) The Vols do not have the fire power to come back from this far down. 2) The Cougars play to good of defense for that much of a comeback.

41 minutes ago, DragonFire said:

A shame Kentucky couldn't have done this to Tennessee, but as long as someone does it and prolongs their misery of never making the Final Four, it works for me.

This does reinforce to me that Kentucky really wasn't going to have much of a shot to get to the Final Four, even if they'd beaten UT.

Agree. There is a HUGE difference between Houston's defense and UK's.

28 minutes ago, 16thBBall Fan said:

Houston leads Tennessee 34-15 at the half. Tennessee is shooting 21% from the field and 7% from 3 and 50% from the line. Houston is not burning the nets by any means they are just shooting 42% from the field and just 30% from 3, They do have 16 points in the paint and 8 points off of the Vols turnovers. I think this one is over for a couple of reasons: 1) The Vols do not have the fire power to come back from this far down. 2) The Cougars play to good of defense for that much of a comeback.

Tennessee is all about defense. They did their thing that first half. They played good defense. Unfortunately for them, Houston is even better than UT on defense. Houston is basically out "Tennesseeing" Tennessee with their defense.

Vols trying to make a little run have it cut down to 14.

The Vols have fought back to cut it down to 10 with 5:33 to play.

Much like Kentucky against Tennessee, if Tennessee had started the game the way they played the second half, then this result might have been different.  I don't think it was a lack of effort, but Tennessee just didn't have it in that first half.  But at same time, I didn't see the same drive and determination they had against Kentucky.  They looked so ready for that game.

Houston defeats Tennessee 69-50. The Vols got no closer to 10 in the 2nd half. Teh Cougars will take on Duke in the Final 4 Next Saturday.

 

Just now, TheDeuce said:

 

It’s crazy how seldom this happens.

On 3/16/2025 at 7:03 PM, DragonFire said:

I'm not saying I don't understand why, but it cracks me up that every year when I watch ESPN predictions on their bracketology show that Bilas and 1-2 others pick every 1 and 2 seed to reach elite eight, followed by every 1 seed to make Final Four.  Like yeah, we get it, those are the best teams and you gravitate to them.  It also never happens, so you might want to throw in SOMETHING for an upset.

I guess I owe Jay Bilas an apology. Although I will maintain that I was technically correct because not ALL the two seeds reached the Elite Eight....

Auburn leads Michigan State by 15 at 23-8 at the under 12 media timeout. Actually at the 15:50 mark the Spartans were up 8-6 and the Tigers went on a 17-0 run to get to the 15 point lead. However out of the media timeout the Spartans are on a 7-0 run of their own to cut it down to just an Auburn 8 point lead at 23-15 with 8:29 left now in the half.

Auburn leads 33-24 at the half. The first 4 minutes will be big I feel for the Spartans.

Auburn up 12 at 50-38 at the under 12 media timeout.

Looks like Auburn's Johni Broome appears to be injured. It looks like he said to players going off the floor "I'm done".