What do you say about this game? Louisville dominated the Vols throughout, looked to be the deeper and more talented team and sent the Vols packing after the Sweet Sixteen for the second straight year.
In what was the most fun basketball season I've experienced as a Vol, the boys fizzled out with a thud against an excellent Cardinal squad. Nobody could make a shot until Lofton popped a couple in the second half. The Vols showed little/no patience on offense, settling for off-balance or contested shots instead of working for something good. They got into early foul trouble (Chism) and late foul trouble (Tyler and JuJuan) that clearly hurt. It was a thorough and, frankly, embarrassing defeat.
I'm not sure how I'm going to feel about the game in the morning, but for now I'm frustrated with much of the night's happenings. For whatever reason, last year's team was playing better basketball in March than this year's clearly more-talented crew. The Vols bench became a non-factor late in the year after being a strength for three months. The point guard situation...I don't want to get started about how I feel about Pearl's decisions here.
Instead of venting about things that probably won't seem so tragic tomorrow, I'm heading to bed to dream about what seemed so possible a month ago. Where was the team that beat Memphis? What happened to the Vols?
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