They lost by 22. This game was awful. Like I said it doesn’t necessarily mean anything long term, but UT had a bunch of transfers too. We will see but that wasn’t good on any level.
So would you still feel this way had Louisville lost by 22 to Kansas, Uconn or Duke? Tennessee has transfers but they also had three starters back from an elite 8 team.
Today it was just Tennessee is much better than Louisville. Cards tried to run what has been working but most every shot was contested. Cards also played excellent defense, but Tennessee made tough shots, many as the clock was running out.
This team is a live or die by the 3 team, and there's only one pure shooter and that's Smith. Without a post presence, this is the offense we're going to see.
Even in defeat, that game today was a night and day difference from the past two seasons. I can't believe fans really expected top 12 wins this early in the process. Not every good team the Cards will face will play as good as Tennessee did today. They're better and they were motivated so we got their A game.
