My Beloved 91 Bloggees (Welcome Steve):
While many SEC hoops fans will be focusing on Tuesday night's 8:00 CST Tennessee - Kentucky game on ESPN, I am interested in the intersectional battle of Gator victims, Xavier at Georgia, 6:00 pm on ESPNU. How will all-BB (Barry's Blog) all-star Tu Holloway fare against the tough SEC East team? Will Georgia's big and athletic front line of Jeremy Price, Trey Thompkins and Travis Leslie prove to be too much for the Atlantic 10's Muskateers? I like these nonconference matchups during this time of the year. NEXT
Remember when UF slayer, former Gator assistant Donnie Jones and his UCF Knights were 14 - 0 and ranked after their opening conference win against Marshall in early January. They have since lost 7 in a row in Conference USA, buried in last place, which will sour the NCAA Committee when evaluating the Gators. Their only good news last week was the postponement of Wednesday night's game at league-leading UTEP due to a winter storm. However, it turned out to be a pain because after some flight delays out of Orlando, the team did make the schlep out to West Texas for naught and then were stuck there. http://www.clickorlando.com/sports/26723624/detail.html NEXT
I have to give some love to bloggees Irby and Eli (and others I may have forgotten) and their Penn Quakers. Penn is 9 - 9 overall but their pre-conference schedule was difficult losing to Villanova, Pitt, Temple and Kentucky http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/teams/pag/schedule . They did defeat well-coached Davidson, who impressed me Thursday night at Samford, in their opening game 69 - 64. The Quakers are 3 - 1 in the conference, one game behind Princeton Without a conference tournament in the Ivy League, each regular season game is almost like a tournament game.
Penn is coached by one of its former stars from the 90s, Jerome Allen. Gator fans remember him on the Penn squad that was defeated by Florida to reach the Sweet Sixteen in 1994 before eventually going to the Final Four for the first time in UF history. Bama fans remember him in the following year when Penn lost in overtime to the Crimson Tide in the first round of the Dance. During Allen's last three years as a player at Penn, they went undefeated in the Ivy League, 14 - 0 each year.
I love when alumni, coach their alma maters except it makes it more difficult to fire them, if that needs to be done. Did I hear someone say Mark Gottfried? NEXT
Jimmer Fredette and his 29 points were a handful for former Gator coach Lon Kruger and his Runnin' Rebels of UNLV in BYU's 78 - 64 victory on Saturday http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/boxscore?gid=201102050068 . Although he had 5 turnovers and shot less than 50 % from the field , 6 for 14, in his 39 minutes, Fredette's eye-opening 16 for 16 from the gift lane warrants mention. NEXT
You Make Me Feel Old When I was an Atlanta Hawks season ticket holder in 1984 the Milwaukee Bucks had a classic playoff battle against the Hawks. The Bucks featured guys like Sidney Moncrief, Junior Bridgeman, Alton Lister, Marques Johnson and Paul Pressey.
When I watched the Missouri - Kansas game on ESPN Monday night, I heard two different Presseys being mentioned during the telecast. It is an uncommon name plus they showed an old team picture of Nolan Richardson's University of Tulsa with the faces of both Mike Anderson and Paul Pressey circled. Of course, I knew then that it was Paul Pressey's two sons, Matt and Phil, who were playing for Anderson's Missouri Tigers. http://www.boston.com/sports/colleges/mens_basketball/articles/2010/10/13/family_more_than_just_coachspeak_at_missouri/
Matt, is a 6' 2 junior guard who is a JUCO transfer averaging 7.3 points a game. Phil is a 5' 10 freshman guard with a 6.9 points per game average. Matt Pressey and Phil Pressey, You Make Me Feel Old
By the way, in its 103 - 86 home victory, Kansas shot from the field an amazing 37 for 61 or 60.7 %. and that included Tyshawn Taylor's paltry 4 for 14 http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/boxscore?gid=201102070287 . Without him, Kansas would have been 33 for 47 or 70 % for the game. Kansas should end up in the Final Four getting the taste of last year's Northern Iowa upset loss out of their mouths. NEXT
Emily London Update.....the senior point guard and all-time Samford women's scorer converted both free throw attempts on Monday night on her way to a team-leading 13 points in just 18 minutes, and a 68 - 48 victory at Wofford http://samfordsports.cstv.com/sports/w-baskbl/stats/2010-2011/sam0207.html . So for the year, she is 76 out of 78 for an incredible 97.4 free throw shooting percentage! Her next game is Saturday at home against Appalachian State. I might have to go see her in action again. I may never see a free throw shooter like her....ever. NEXT
To football....I was having a discussion with a buddy at a Super Bowl party. The topic of jersey numbers of quarterbacks came up, especially those greater than 19. It resulted in this trivia question.....what San Diego Charger legendary QB wore the number 21? Scroll down to the bottom for the answer. Also, feel free to reply with other QBs, college or pro, who wore a number greater than 19. (Now an NFL quarterback must wear a jersey number between 1 and 19 http://www.jt-sw.com/football/pro/index.nsf/Documents/0-jers-nums .) THAT'S IT
Enjoy, Gators play a revenge game at South Carolina on Wednesday at 7:00 CST broadcast regionally on the SEC Network....if you are in the wrong region, like we are in Birmingham, you can watch it at http://www.espn3.com/ ,
Barry
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