As Will has already mentioned this morning, there’s a lot of really good basketball today. Most importantly to Vols fans, of course, is the two-team race between Tennessee and Auburn for the SEC regular-season championship. If both teams win or both teams lose, they are co-champs, but either team can have the banner to itself by winning with the other losing. Auburn hosts South Carolina at 3:30, and Tennessee hosts Georgia at 6:00.
Will posted the Vols game preview yesterday, and you can hear him talking about it on the radio right here:
If you’re looking for an Auburn-South Carolina preview, check out College and Magnolia for the Auburn perspective and Garnet and Black Attack for the South Carolina perspective.
This will be our game thread for both games.
Auburn-South Carolina
- Tipoff:Â 3:30 p.m. ET
- TV: SEC Network
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- Online audio
Tennessee-Georgia
- Tipoff:Â 6:00 p.m. ET
- TV: SEC Network
- Online video
- Online audio
- Online stats
Go Gamecocks!
Go Vols!
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Emotions early in this one. Hope our guys can keep their heads early in ours.
Auburn is ice cold.
And now SC is ice cold and turning the ball over every possession.
Wow. 23-11 Gamecocks.
Hopefully they keep it up for the next 30 minutes.
If Auburn keeps missing they’re in real trouble.
Looks like they heated back up. USC is taking some plain awful passes. Auburn is capitalizing on those turnovers.
Yeah that last one into the post was especially bad.
That was a necessary deep 3 to end. Glad USC kept the lead, but it’ll be a fight in the second half.
Yep.
Auburn just out hustling SC.
12 turnovers for USC and 5 for Auburn. Other than that USC is winning in almost every other category.
Yeah.
Looks like a new game in the second half.
Oof. Silva got rocked on that play.
Brown is beyond on fire.
That last foul seemed questionable. Still, Silva in foul trouble this early is gonna make things tough.
I’m beginning to think Pearl’s first half complaints are beginning to pay off.
Any chance they dump all the confetti early and have to forfeit for not having appropriate court conditions in time? lol..
Heh. That’s the first time I’ve seen a technical foul for premature confetti.
Back to two possessions. Still a chance.
Well nothing has changed. We still win a championship with a win tonight. We’re built better for an SEC run so the seeding won’t matter.
Yep. Gotta win.
People always like to point out the head to head. However, on the other hand if we win tonight we’ll be better against the field than Auburn. Besides seeding it really isn’t important.
By the way I see that MSU and Kansas either lost or getting killed right now. Reckon our No. 2 seed chances will improve after a win tonight?
I don’t know. Auburn’s in the way, I think. May depend on more than just tonight.
Also, those two teams are probably still so far ahead that there’s a lot of room to make up.
Daniel gets the start on Senior Day. Nice.
Tough sledding down low. For both Williams and Schofield. Admiral’s outside game should come in handy.
Man, can’t hit anything.
Good thing Williams went hard with two hands there. Got it to go in despite a hard foul.
Williams warming up well.