March 11th, 2009 05:10pm
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ALABAMA
Stat you should know: Alabama ranks last in the SEC in conference games in 3-point shots made with only five per game. The Tide has made only 80 3s this season in SEC games, a mere 76 behind league leader Mississippi State.
Quote of the day: “We’re ready to go starting (Thursday) night. It’s going to be something to see.” — Mikhail Torrance.
Phillip Pearson’s mindset: The former Alabama player is nearing the end of his season as interim coach and faces …
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March 11th, 2009 04:30pm
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ARKANSAS
Stat you should know: In conference play, the Razorbacks rank last in the league in scoring defense allowing 78.2 points per game. Arkansas has allowed opponents to make 41 percent of their 3s and SEC opponents are shooting 47 percent overall.
Quote of the day: “We’ve played enough games that we don’t consider ourselves freshmen anymore.” — Rotnei Clarke, one of three freshman starters for Arkansas.
John Pelphrey’s mindset: This is the third meeting between Pelphrey and his old boss, with the …
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March 11th, 2009 04:22pm
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VANDERBILT
Stat you should know: Vanderbilt center A.J. Ogilvy went over the 1,000-point mark in the last game of the regular season and needs four blocks in the tournament to reach 100 for his career. When he does he’ll become the second Vandy player to score 1,000 points and register 100 blocks. The other was Will Perdue.
Quote of the day: “I’m not sure if it’s the same place we played. Is it?” — Jermaine Beal when asked about his feelings of …
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March 11th, 2009 02:01pm
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MISSISSIPPI STATE
Stat you should know: Mississippi State went 5-1 against the East this season with the lone loss coming against Tennessee. The Bulldogs will play East teams in the first two rounds of the tournament.
Quote of the day: “I’ll tell you how messed up I was. I lost track of where my family was. I was trying to find my boys and two of them were on my bench. I forgot all about that.” — Rick Stansbury on last year’s …
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March 11th, 2009 01:25pm
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KENTUCKY
Stat you should know: The Wildcats have two of the top seven scorers in the league in Jodie Meeks and Patrick Patterson, but they are ranked ninth in the league in scoring in conference games only.
Quote of the day: “Are you talking basketball-wise? Because I was married once.” — Billy Gillispie’s response to my question as to whether last year’s tournament was the most bizarre thing he’d ever seen.
Billy Gillispie’s mindset: Just four days ago he bristled when a reporter …
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March 11th, 2009 12:52pm
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GEORGIA
Stat you should know: Georgia ranks last in the SEC in scoring offense, scoring margin, field goal percentage and turnover margin, which explains why the Bulldogs are 3-13 this season.
Quote of the day: “It definitely has been a rough season. We knew trouble was lurking but we didn’t know it would happen.” — Corey Butler on the mid-season dismissal of Dennis Felton.
Pete Herrmann’s mindset: The interim coach somehow managed to squeeze three wins out of this team and he’d like …
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March 11th, 2009 12:01pm
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So here we are at the SEC Tournament in Tampa and already it seems
like a bad idea. Not only are ticket sales weak — schools began
discounting tickets last week — but there are few members of the media
in attendance. Charles Bloom, the SEC spokesman, said they’re down 15
percent in credentialed media from last year.
The bottom line is that it’s easy to get to Atlanta from anywhere in
the conference and not so easy to get to Tampa. …
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March 9th, 2009 05:56pm
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Monday was the kind of day where you think to yourself, “This is why we live here.”
Blue sky, 80 degrees, nothing but bright green grass staring at you down the first fairway.
The
occasion was the ball coach coming to town for our annual match. Each
year during South Carolina’s spring break, Steve Spurrier comes back to
town and we hit the links.
I beat him two in a row a while back
which, of course, brought …
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March 5th, 2009 03:55pm
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A day later, Billy Donovan said his benching of Nick Calathes was educational more than as disciplinary.
The
Florida star was benched for the last two-plus minutes of the
Mississippi State game after taking a three-point shot early in the
shot clock, a shot that banged off the backboard.
“He has an
incredible drive to make an effort at the end of games but he has to
understand how to incorporate other people,” Donovan said Thursday.
“When you’re the best player on …
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March 2nd, 2009 04:05pm
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In next Monday’s Gainesville Sun, I’m going to unveil my all-time gator passing team. Not for football, but for basketball. The twist is that it will be done by position.
Point guard.
Two guard
Small forward
Power forward
Center
I’ve asked for input from several people who have been around Gator basketball for a long time and actually had a long discussion with Billy Donovan about which of his players would be the best …
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