Rick Barnes Tenisi The team is known as one of the most difficult defensive groups in the country, with only 28 % of 3 points opponents. But in two meetings in the normal season with Kentucky This year, the volunteers had no answer because the Wildcats combined to shoot 24 against 48 of the city center in the two years.
“I think you should be clearly prepared,” Barz said on Thursday when asked about her rival interview at SEC for the third time this season. “I attribute their success to some of the procedures they run, and we did not defend it. You can protect them, but when you let the team trust, it gets a rhythm, it is difficult to break it.”
The pressure on the fact that the volunteers were feeling the game to an angry start on the solid wood in the semi-finals on Friday, which led to a reflection to the scenario of the normal season with a victory of 78-65 to finish the Mark Bob first season on his head. Tonight, it was a Kenkaki that was in its wake, as Tennessee gathered the ball from the beginning. The Vols opened the game on the 17-7 race behind severe defense, rewind Zakay Zieglerand Chliss Lani and Jordan JennyWho collected for 51 points.
Tennessee imposed her grinding style of the jump, as wild cats held only seven points in eight minutes of the game. The folders were affixed to the leading Kentucky top scorer otega OwehHe held it to only 11 points, while it was one of the best archers in America, Cuban Berra, silent in Indianapolis, where he finished 1 of 7 of the ground.
For the Kentucky team that loves to allow him to fly from the city center, with an average of 26 attempts for each game, Tennessi turned off the water, holding wild drops to 6 out of 15 of the city center. Collect this with the +10 feature on the glass and the 19-5 edge at the second chance points, and the destruction of the cats.
The turning point of Tennessee came with 6:25 left in the first half when Kentucky reduced the lead to 31-20. Vols began keeping Wildcats without a field goal that was made in the next five minutes, as 8-1 was running to pay the feature to 18.
Zeigler continued his legendary career with 18 points and 10 assists-matching Kentucky in the match-while Chaz broke out from the recession out of 8 out of 27 seasons against Kentucky. North Florida transfer was 17 points at 7 of 16 fire from the ground.
For volunteers, it is a return to Elite Eight for the second consecutive season after its previous regional appearance in the history of the program, which was under the return of Bruce Pearl in 2010. The Barnes team will now set the goal of history against Houston or Bordeaux. Tennessee was not fourth, but with the way the Fols Kentucky rocked Friday night, they showed the reason for the history of history later this weekend.
The first year of the Mark Bob era can be considered as success in Lexington, where the program reached Sweet 16 for the first time since 2019. expectations will only be raised to the Pope to build on the season of this tone while building its second list.
John Vanta is an anchor and national basketball writer in Fox Sports. It covers sport in a variety of capabilities, from connecting to the FS1 games to working as a major host on the Big East Digital Network to provide comments in the field of 68 media networks. Follow it in john_fanta.
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