If you were watching closely to the Memphis-Tennessee game Saturday night, you saw a strategy used against them that will ultimately prevent them from winning the tournament this year. To beat Memphis, defensively, you need to do two things. And Tennessee did both of those things last night.

First, you have to go zone against them. If you haven't read it yet, Sports Illustrated did a fabulous job detailing the new offense that Memphis is running. In one little paragraph, it mentions that Memphis doesn't have that dead eye outside shooter to make you get out of the zone. Therefore, Tennessee knew they could prevent Memphis from getting easy baskets by driving packing in the lane. No dribble penetration to the hole for Memphis last night.

When tournament time comes, Memphis will see this a lot. All it takes is one game, in one of those big arenas where the background is drastically different, and Memphis will be out.

Secondly, and believe me, this has been mentioned too many times on this site already, you need to install the "Hack-a-Tiger" defense. Similar to the "Hack-a-Shaq" defense, you need to put them on the line rather than allowing easy baskets. Obviously you need a little depth on your bench to do this, but the return is great. Seriously, 58% from the line. That is just pathetic.

While we're on the free throw discussion, what's up with Calipari's comments to Dick Vitale during the game? When Vitale asked Calipari if he was concerned about the poor free throw shooting, Calipari replied, "Not at all. We'll make them at the end of the game."

I'm sure you're aware that Memphis missed five free throws down the stretch, so I'm not sure where he is getting his confidence. Even if Memphis is 100% from the line in the last two minutes, how is he OK with giving up ten or so points during the rest of the game? He's OK with shooting 40% during the first 38 minutes of the game and giving up 10 or so easy points from the line? And yet he believes that somehow, they'll turn it on when the pressure mounts in the last two minutes. You can get away with that in Conference USA, but that won't fly in the tournament. It just doesn't make sense.

But then again, Calipari apparently has a short term memory. It wasn't that long ago that Memphis lost a chance to go to the NCAA because they couldn't hit a couple of free throws: