On Saturday, Tennessee fans were shown a movie that they’ve seen far too often from this basketball team this season. The Volunteers came out flat and lifeless, and outside of a couple of moments in the game, stayed that way for the majority of the afternoon. It’s strange to see a Rick Barnes coached team continually give these kinds of efforts, especially with so much talent on the roster.
Auburn controlled the boards from the jump, racking up offensive rebounds and creating second chance points. They attacked the paint and got to the free throw stripe a stunning 37 times against Tennessee’s ten.