Tennessee was able to beat their cross-border rival on Tuesday night, bringing Bruce Pearl’s orange blazer to 2-0 this season at home.  He has stated that he would only wear the orange blazer for rivalry games which currently include Kentucky and Vanderbilt.  Here’s the first vote for there to be rivalries with every other team that we play.  Oh yeah, and the Florida football team too.

Chris Lofton, along with Duke Crews and Wayne Chism accounted for 57 of Tennessee’s 89 points (I actually did the math on that one… so it’s probably wrong).  It’s good seeing the freshmen coming along with good interior play, as well as Lofton being able to stick it to his home state school by having his most productive game since his injury.

I faaaaart on your school Tubbs.
The crowd of close to 24,000 staged an “orange out” where just about everyone was wearing orange.  I can’t say for sure if that was the reason, but the ESPN cameras seemed to have a hard time focusing on any particular color, with the orange burning out at least a couple color chips in the cameras.  I mean, everything just looked a little bit off.  The blue that the UK players were wearing looked a little purple, and Bruce Pearl looked green.  But perhaps that’s because he’s the hulk.  So, maybe it looked fine in hindsight.

I think however, that the ridiculous amount of orange did contribute to Kentucky’s downfall.  If nothing else than the fact that normal human retinas aren’t designed to take in that level of color-blinding intensity.  The only humans that are accustomed to it are Vols fans and prison inmates.  And although this is the SEC, it’s not football, so there aren’t too many players with the requisite exposure and acclimation.

Up next for the BasketVols is a trip down to Columbia to face off against the narco-barons in  the continuing fight against drugs in our country.  Oh, wrong Columbia?  Are you sure?  Hmm, ok then, next up for the BasketVols is a trip down to Columbia to face off against the evil visor himself, Steven Orr Spurrier.  Wrong again?  Seriously, dub tee eff man?  Ok fine, up next for the BasketVols is a trip down to South Carolina for some oyster eating and cock beating.  Sounds like a dandy time.