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[QUOTE="pokercuse08, post: 4844073, member: 6535"]
I'm surprised people are so upset. We proved we can play with the #7 team in the country for long stretches today. We also proved that if we let up at all or make any mistakes, we can give up a run in a hurry against a team that good. All in all, that bodes well for us being good enough to dance. Up to the kids to put complete games together and keep improving.

I felt like we got pretty lucky Tennessee kept stepping out of bounds, but we also got unlucky to shoot 8/17 at the line. So that feels like a wash. A few bad calls each way, we probably got a few more bad ones against us, but whatever.

As far as I'm concerned in terms of quality of the two teams, the score was misleading. Tennessee was about 7 points better today, and then they ran it up when we had to resort to desperation.

There's a lot of stuff on film to teach the kids with, especially in terms of what happens when you make poor decisions with regard to shot selection, and what happens when everyone stands around on offense. I thought that improved in the second half versus the end of the first half, so I assume Red coached them up on that at halftime. The key will be getting that lesson to stick so that they don't have lapses.

Hopefully we can pull off this next one and avoid playing Chaminade. It'd be pretty frustrating to battle Tennessee tough for 37 minutes, do the same against presumably Gonzaga but come up short, and then get stuck playing Chaminade.

On the other hand, even if that's the way it goes, these kids are going to know by Thanksgiving [I]exactly[/I] the level they need to play to if they want to make the tournament and make some noise.
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