The more important game is Saturday. Have to defend the home court. We have a lot of opportunities for road wins after Tennessee. A blowout or a 2 point loss doesn't matter to me.
I don't know. Basically since the road dawg team, with a few exceptions for Q's final year, it seems like any time we have had the chance to make a statement, we have not only not closed out, we usually have barely gotten off the bus before being in a big hole if not out of the game completely.
I am optimistic that is not the case with this team. We didn't win against kentucky, but I don't have any problem with the way we played. Even acknowleding that our defense on 3 should have been better, they usually aren't going to shoot like that, even against bad defense (and I would say ours was average, not necessarily bad).
If we give them all they want, even if we don't win, that will be another piece that makes me feel better about this team showing up when it matters. Obviously not going to jump off the bandwagon or anything if we get beat solidly, but I think playing them to the wire after a disappointing game against UK does tell us something meaningful about the team.
