My Beloved 31 GHB Bloggees (Welcome Henry, Arnold, Karl and Steve):
The Gator resume for March Madness is building nicely. Soundly defeating Kansas State, the number 6 team in the country, by 13 is certainly a quality win, especially outscoring the Wildcats 49 to 24 in the last 29 minutes after a horrendous start. Also, having one of our two conquerors this season, undefeated UCF, win over the U in the first game of the doubleheader, takes away some of the sting from that loss a few weeks ago.
Warning...warning. Don't be fooled. Jacksonville University will be visiting the O'Connell Center on Monday afternoon and will give the Gators fits. After seeing the Dolphins live a few weeks ago, last year's Atlantic Sun regular season champs will be extremely disruptive on the defensive end. My prediction.....the Gators will suffer at least 20 turnovers, probably more. Jacksonville is not very big (no one over 6' 7 plays much), and doesn't shoot very well from the free throw line, but their athleticism and rising star head coach, Cliff Warren, could make it a long afternoon for the Orange and Blue. NEXT
Saturday had an interesting battle of ex-Auburn coaches when Cliff Ellis's Coastal Carolina Chanticleers beat Jeff Lebo's Eastern Carolina's Pirates at the buzzer http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/recap?gid=201012180122 . The way Auburn is playing under Tony Barbee, especially losing on Saturday at home to Presbyterian 62- 59 http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/recap?gid=201012180028 , they may want either of those coaches back. But it is early.....got to give Tony some time. Plus right now on the Plains, basketball just isn't high on the priority right now for some Cam reason. NEXT
Quick note about Gator transfer Jai Lucas's contribution in Texas's win over North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Saturday.......5 minutes and all bagels in the box score http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/boxscore?gid=201012180413 . I prefer his UF recruiting classmate, Erving Walker, any day. NEXT
This has been a bad sports year for the Nutt family. In football, Houston's Ole Miss Rebels finished 4 - 8 and 1 - 7 in the SEC finishing last in the Western Division. Brother Dickey, the head coach of Southeast Missouri State (SEMO) Redhawks' basketball squad, is 2-10 so far, even after defeating Jacksonville State Sunday night 76 - 67. http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/teams/sap/schedule NEXT
Former Kentucky star, Antoine Walker is starting his professional basketball comeback in the NBDL with the Idaho Stampede. This week he had 25 points and 9 rebounds in a loss to the Maine Red Claws. http://www.nba.com/dleague/games/20101216/IDAMNE/gameinfo.html He has had some major financial problems which prompted the comeback http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=mc-afterthebuzzer121010 THAT"S IT
Enjoy your hoops....I am taking a break for about a week,
Barry
