You can stop pinching yourself now. It really happened. The Vols won a share of the SEC regular-season championship last night by out-toughing the Georgia Bulldogs, 66-61. It was a win that welcomed back to Knoxville that old familiar championship feeling for which we’ve been pining for far too long. You know it’s true when they’re printing and selling Vols SEC Championship Tees.
Here’s a collection of all of the best post-game tweets, highlights, celebrations, and interviews, because basking in all that stuff is what you do after a championship. It’s in the manual. (Please add any we may have missed in the comments section.)
But before the post-game stuff, here’s a warm up:
The crowd-led Star Spangled Banner
The crowd signing the National Anthem will always be my favorite version. #Vols pic.twitter.com/AepWgSev54
— Marshall Hughes (@marshallhughes) March 3, 2018
Okay, so now for the somehow-even-awesomer stuff.
Highlights with homers
PB+J combined for 45.
2nd-half defense limited Georgia to just 19 points.
Big shots galore.An SEC title. #GBO pic.twitter.com/oKoXVsNjWq
— Tennessee Basketball (@Vol_Hoops) March 4, 2018
Highlights with SECN commentary
The view of the last few minutes from the stands
Celebrations
The immediate post-game interviews came next, but we’re going with the celebrations first:
FEELS GOOD pic.twitter.com/GG33KDbjlF
— Tennessee Basketball (@Vol_Hoops) March 4, 2018
Waking up as champs! pic.twitter.com/2KeHxwjjg1
— Tennessee Basketball (@Vol_Hoops) March 4, 2018
Tennessee Vols.
Cut nets.
Collision course. #SECChamps pic.twitter.com/5sTtiKPpCR
— Marc Whiteman (@MarcWhiteman) March 4, 2018
Rick Barnes spoke to the raucous crowd in TBA after the Vols’ championship win… pic.twitter.com/l5JfLrjl8s
— Orange & White Report (@OandWReport) March 4, 2018
Listen. Repeat. pic.twitter.com/Mi0BLJ2d6r
— Vol Network (@VolNetwork_IMG) March 4, 2018
This picture pic.twitter.com/OR24Tg6N58
— gmannVOLS (@gmannVOLS) March 4, 2018
Post-game, on-court interviews
Rick Barnes:
Admiral Schofield:
Post-game press conferences
Rick Barnes:
Admiral Schofield:
Grant Williams, Lamontre (yes, I did that on purpose) Turner, and Kyle Phillips:
Player tweets
SEC CHAMPS!! All Glory Be to God!! #VolNation We couldn’t have done it without yalls support this whole year!! Man it’s great to be a TENNESSEE VOL🍊🍊
— Grant Williams (@GrWill2) March 4, 2018
GOOD OLE ROCKY TOP! 🍊 #SECChamps
— ♠️ACE BOOGIE ++👹 (@admiralelite15) March 4, 2018
SEC CHAMPS!!! ALL GLORY TO GOD 🙏🏾💍
— Lamonte’ Turner (@LTurn1) March 4, 2018
‘With God, anything is possible!’Thank you for the support today #VolNation we could not have done it without you guys. It’s a blessing to be a SEC CHAMPION 🙏🏾💯❗️
— Jordan Bone (@JordanBone23) March 4, 2018
So how was Senior Night @jayd3__ ?? pic.twitter.com/IFfx5rzUxA
— Tennessee Basketball (@Vol_Hoops) March 4, 2018
Congratulatory tweets
Congrats @Vol_Hoops and @RickBarnesUT on a great win! #Champs 🍊🍊
— Jeremy Pruitt (@CoachJPruitt) March 4, 2018
Congratulations Coach @RickBarnesUT & @Vol_Hoops on the big win tonight!!#GoVols🍊🏀 https://t.co/5UxvRkerNT
— Josh Dobbs (@josh_dobbs1) March 4, 2018
Let’s gooooooo big congrats to my @Vol_Hoops boys for winning that SEC Championship today #VFL
— Scotty Hopson (@Shopson32) March 4, 2018
Congratulations @Vol_Hoops on winning the SEC Championship. @AuburnMBB is proud to share the title with such a worthy opponent!
— Bruce Pearl (@coachbrucepearl) March 4, 2018
And finally, what’s next:
The 2018 SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament Bracket has the Vols playing on Friday, March 9 at 7:00 p.m. against the winner of LSU and Mississippi State.
And there’s this, from Ken Pomeroy:
Your numerical guide to the SEC. The main event at the Scottrade Center. pic.twitter.com/1oeJ7aEVo1
— Ken Pomeroy (@kenpomeroy) March 4, 2018