#1 Tennessee vs Texas Longhorns

[Chop]

Didn't watch it.

#1 Tennessee beat us. The Vols took us down by 4 points.

74-70 Final Score

there is no "moral victory" in a loss, but keeping it that close with the nation's top team is promising.

 

[Chop]

Tre Johnson with 26 pts
Pope with 17
Mark with 10

We all knew what Johnson can do. It's good to see Pope coming on. Of all our players, Pope seemed (to me) like the biggest mess in the early part of the season. Also good to see Mark asserting himself. He was good at UH.

 

[Chop]

At halftime, it was 33-31 them.

 

[Chop]

We're going to hit some SEC teams that we can (and should) beat over the next several weeks. If we even up our conference record to close to 0.500 by early-Feb, we'll be setting ourselves up for a good shot.

1/15 #17 OU
1/18 #8 Florida
1/21 Missou
1/25 #10 TX 8&5
1/29 #23 Ole Miss
2/1 LSU
2/5 Arkansas
2/8 Vandy

 

[Horns11]

If you take a quick glimpse at pretty much any box score for us this year, you can just look at how Shedrick did to see if we won or not. Take a guess how he did tonight.

I get that we don't have the personnel to hang with physical teams, but there's a STARK difference between the games when we "need" Johnson and Pope to go off, and the games when we have all-around play.

Also, our bench was 2-12 and theirs was 9-18.