Feast Week College Basketball Open Thread: Monday Edition

by Glenn Logan on Nov 21, 2011 6:06 PM EST in College Basketball

I'm going to try to remember to put up a college basketball open thread every night this week to capture general chat about the games going, especially in big tournaments like the Maui Classic.

Here are tonight's games. Enjoy.

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Tennessee giving Duke all they want.

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by Glenn Logan on Nov 21, 2011 6:08 PM EST reply actions

Yes sir.

Tennessee looks a lot better than I thought they would. Duke most likely wins but tennessee giving great effort.

by phatcatfan on Nov 21, 2011 7:00 PM EST via mobile up reply actions

Yeah, I'm surprised at how good Tennessee looks.

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by Glenn Logan on Nov 21, 2011 7:13 PM EST up reply actions

Nice effort by Tennesse.

Just not enough talent. But a tough, scrappy team. They may be better than expected this year.

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by Glenn Logan on Nov 21, 2011 7:34 PM EST reply actions

I think we're already readjusting our goals on RTT

going from “avoid the bottom three in the SEC” to “tournament? maybe? please.” Either way, I’m already all in on Cuonzo. He obviously doesn’t promote as well, but after watching Pearl’s halfcourt offenses, this is a breath of fresh air.

Heel for school, Vol for life!

Bolts, Preds, Canes (childhood team, home state team, hometown team). Canes mini-STH. Southern hockey solidarity!

by Incipient_Senescence on Nov 21, 2011 8:58 PM EST up reply actions

Very impressed by how hard and well UT played.

Very impressed.

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by Glenn Logan on Nov 21, 2011 10:07 PM EST up reply actions

thanks

hopefully we can sustain that over the season. Also, if you only watched the first half, you’d have missed our best player. Trae Golden ~~will be~~ is the best point guard Tennessee has had since CJ Watson. I think he’s already better than Bobby Maze.

Heel for school, Vol for life!

Bolts, Preds, Canes (childhood team, home state team, hometown team). Canes mini-STH. Southern hockey solidarity!

by Incipient_Senescence on Nov 21, 2011 11:34 PM EST up reply actions

Golden

I only got to see part of the second half, but I was very impressed by Golden. I know he was on UK’s radar at one time. He would have been a good get.

by Acdixon on Nov 22, 2011 1:07 PM EST up reply actions

Golden had a horrible outing vs Memphis, though.

Made some plays, but some real bad decisions on offense and defense, and really struggled in the second half and overtimes. His first “bad” performance of the season. We’ll see if it holds, he’s looked very good outside of that.

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Boom. Here comes the Boom. Braydy or not. Here comes the boy from the West.

by bobothevol on Nov 22, 2011 5:06 PM EST up reply actions

agree, he was terrible this afternoon

hopefully, from the Vol perspective, this is the anomaly and the last few weeks are the standard.

But Maymon was a man tonight. 32 points, 20 boards. Last three players to get 30 & 20 are Griffin, Beasley, and Durant.

Heel for school, Vol for life!

Bolts, Preds, Canes (childhood team, home state team, hometown team). Canes mini-STH. Southern hockey solidarity!

by Incipient_Senescence on Nov 22, 2011 5:23 PM EST up reply actions

I haven't gotten a chance to see the Vols play yet.

I’m looking forward to it. It’s just that that shade of orange is… ;)

by sweasyf on Nov 22, 2011 4:28 PM EST up reply actions

Dang, they're still on today, 2nd OT vs Memphis

I can catch the very end.

by sweasyf on Nov 22, 2011 4:30 PM EST up reply actions

you catch how Tennessee wore orange and Memphis wore blue?

why don’t the two of us do that? Every single time. Seriously, it’d be flippin’ awesome.

Heel for school, Vol for life!

Bolts, Preds, Canes (childhood team, home state team, hometown team). Canes mini-STH. Southern hockey solidarity!

by Incipient_Senescence on Nov 22, 2011 5:24 PM EST up reply actions

Im never getting anything done with all this basketball on :-)

by phatcatfan on Nov 21, 2011 8:00 PM EST via mobile reply actions

Plenty of Men's action going on .... but a real barn burner on the women's side is going on as #1 Stanford is at #4 UConn

by ukcris on Nov 21, 2011 8:57 PM EST up reply actions

oops .. I mean #5 Stanford

by ukcris on Nov 21, 2011 8:58 PM EST up reply actions

Indiana looked good beating Gardner Webb by 30

The youngest Zeller is a good ball player. He needs to get stronger, like all freshmen, but he has really changed that team. Olipado looks real good too.

by jdogblue on Nov 21, 2011 9:02 PM EST reply actions

Though, to be fair,

Gardner Webb sucks. (They really do, and I can say this knowing a few people on the team this year, as Boiling Springs is my girlfriend’s hometown and I’ll be down there tomorrow for Thanksgiving break. And it’s still really fun to troll you guys about that game.)

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Boom. Here comes the Boom. Braydy or not. Here comes the boy from the West.

by bobothevol on Nov 22, 2011 8:04 AM EST up reply actions

Duke ... tough road ahead ... Michigan and then possibly Kansas

by ukcris on Nov 21, 2011 9:16 PM EST reply actions

Tennessee hung tough for 33 minutes.

I’m impressed. Missouri looked even more impressive. I’m going to try to stay up for Georgetown-Kansas. I want teams that we beat to do well, but our all-time wins margin over KU is too thin for my liking. Go Hoyas! (wow, that was hard to say)

by Wheatgerm on Nov 21, 2011 9:33 PM EST reply actions