My Beloved 67 Bloggees (Welcome Aaron, Luke and John....sounds like an old Dion song.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dHvYB5JdSs ) :
It was like Ali versus Frazier on Tuesday night in Knoxville, with Florida and Tennessee battling into overtime. Ordinarily the Gators have a tough time on the boards with the Volunteers (remember how the departed headband-wearing Wayne Chism always seemed to beat our bigs to the ball) especially at Thompson-Boling Arena but we matched them with 35 rebounds each. Kenny Boynton's two clutch threes and free throws in the extra period were key. But we don't get past regulation if Alex Tyus doesn't swat away a near-certain two points from their annual Gator thorn, Brian Williams. Tremendous SEC divisional road 81 - 75 win for the Gators. http://www.gatorzone.com/story.php?id=19553 NEXT
Trivia question. Who is second in the NBA this season in three-point shooting percentage? Scroll down to the bottom to see the answer. You probably can guess his alma mater. NEXT
You may have determined by now, I always find transfers interesting to follow. A good number of our bloggees also follow the University of Alabama. Therefore, here is an update of recent Crimson Tide transfers:
Justin Tubbs - The 6' 3 senior guard is in his second year at East Tennessee State playing for Murry Bartow. Last year he averaged 12.1 points per game shooting just under 41 %. This year he has dropped to 10.7 points per game shooting just under 40 %. http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/players/60338
Justin Knox - The 6' 9 senior forward is averaging just over 6 points per game and about 4 1/2 rebounds per game in less than 17 minutes per game for the North Carolina Tar Heels. http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/players/72893
Demetrius Jemison - The 6' 8 senior forward is finishing up is career with the lowly 2 - 14 Manhattan Jaspers (which surprisingly is located in the Bronx...members of the Birmingham Tipoff Club learned that fact courtesy of our December speaker, former Manhattan coach, Fran Fraschilla). He only has played in 7 games because he received NCAA clearance on December 10th. Since then he has averaged 10.9 points and 7.9 rebounds in 31 minutes per game. http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/players/60339 He almost joined another Tide transfer, Rico Pickett, but Rico left the team after last season to pursue professional basketball overseas after leading the MAAC in scoring http://blog.timesunion.com/collegesports/siena-has-seen-the-last-of-rico-pickett/8308/ . NEXT
Speaking of the Crimson Tide, its basketball team has finally bought into Anthony Grant's ability to take them to the next level and it is fun to watch. You can tell by everyone's body language on the court and the bench. Limiting an explosive (but young) South Carolina team that just beat Vandy, to less than 30 % shooting and just 47 points should have Alabama fans licking their chops after its 57 - 47 Wednesday night victory http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/boxscore?gid=201101120006 . By the way, I was able to view the game on www.espn3.com . You Tide maniacs can watch a replay of the game at that site. NEXT
Jacksonville University's recent 31-point loss at Belmont http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/recap?gid=201101100047 at the end of a three-game road trip, stung Gator basketball fans looking back to the December 20th overtime loss to their Northern Florida neighbors. Country music legend Vince Gill's favorite team, Belmont http://www1.vincegill.com/news.php?c=1&more=1&p=1009&pb=1&tb=1 , is an excellent mid-major whose losses have only been to Tennessee (twice) and Vandy but the margin of defeat is disturbing. It will be interesting to see what happens in JU's house during the rematch on February 3rd to determine if we should give 10-4 Jacksonville a mulligan. I expect these scrappy guys to get revenge. NEXT
Auburn started to show some life with the upset of Florida State last week, but the team has turned south the last two games. Part of it is because star junior Frankie Sullivan did not play in those two losses to LSU and Kentucky. My guess is that he will not play again this year because of the swelling in his injured knee and Auburn's downtrend will continue. This will save a year of eligibility because he will be eligible for a medical redshirt....he has not played in over 30 % of his team's games and he has not played in any games in the second half of the season which is where the Tigers are now in their schedule http://www.ncaapublications.com/productdownloads/D111.pdf see page 159, Section 14.2.4 NEXT
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." That Charles Dickens quote http://www.literature.org/authors/dickens-charles/two-cities/book-01/chapter-01.html summarizes the Florida State basketball team. Within a week of losing at the lowly Auburn Tigers, they whip the top-rated Duke Blue Devils 66 - 61 http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/recap?gid=201101120213 We know it is tough for Gator fans to root for the "School Out West" but a big win like that heightens our road victory against them which should pay dividends for us with the Selection Committee. THAT'S IT (except Scroll Down even if you didn't try to answer the trivia question so you can read about the player's outstanding Wednesday night)
Enjoy...I promise it will be blog-free Friday....feel free to reply with blog feedback...suggestions are welcome and I will not be insulted,
Barry
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Matt Bonner. He has shot 117 threes and made 58 of them for 49.6 per cent. http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/stats/bycategory?cat=Fielding&conference=NBA&year=season_2010&sort=22&qualified=1 You have to be impressed how he has managed to hang on and contribute with such a winning organization like the San Antonio Spurs. A team could have purchased his services in 2006 for a couple of old NIKE shoes and beat-up basketballs. Wednesday night he scored all of his 17 points in the second half to lead the Spurs over the Milwaukee Bucks 91 - 84 http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/recap?gid=2011011215 . Only 4 % of the Yahoo Fantasy NBA players start Bonner like I do. The other 96 % need to be bloggees, don't you think?
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