re: It's time, I am calling it, road win #1 Saturday (POLL) Yes-15 No-2

Yes. I love the way we have played the last 3 games including @Bama.

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Yes. Vandy is really, really bad.

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Agreed but so is USCe and they kicked us around pretty good @ Columbia.

I still think we have enough momentum and the right lineup to beat Vandy. Even in that damn backasswards gym. I may take a ride up tomorrow and watch it live. Only about 1 1/2 hours from my house to the Vandy Campus.

I hope and think the florida game is the turning point for anderson here. I saw flashes of the old bud walton arena at the florida game. It still wasn't up to where it used to be crowd and noise but there were flashes where it was loud and disrupting in there. Florida guys were getting frustrated by it. Also did anyone notice that we actually wore florida the frick out. That big #4 dude had hands on his hips breathing heavy about half way through the first period. It was nice to see that again.

hogs by 20

No

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. Vandy has traditionally been tough for us even with our better teams.

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Believe it or not, the guys on this roster have had success at Vandy, they have won there twice, IIRC, once over a ranked Vandy team.

If the real Vandy team shows up and the real Arkansas shows up, Arkansas wins.

If a Vandy shooting lights out like happened at Carolina or the Arkansas that went to aTm shows up, Arkansas loses.

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No. The team doesn't get pumped up on the road.

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Compared to at home, every team will have this problem.

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That and Anderson's system has inherent disadvantages in that we will foul more on the road and the flow/energy of the game will be completely different.

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Meh, plenty of teams press, the problem is players want to play defense with their hands instead of their feet. It is more laziness than it is the "system". However, Mike has been using the press less and less as the season has went on, we really didn't use it at all starting @bama and I can't recall but a few times pressing Florida. I imagine he will try to press Vandy because we are more athletic and have more depth than they do, however, if it does put is in a bind do to fouls keeping them in the game, he should call it off as we should be able to beat them playing a half court game...

We dumb.