As we sports junkies await the penultimate pigskin playdowns, there was a weekend of hoops.
A veritable hoopadelic bounty of b-ball.
Can I get a witness?
Say Hallelujah!!!
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Today’s quote from a national hoops scribe:
The point is, even the best teams in college basketball sometimes have to grind out ugly ones. Beating a middling team by one or two points is by no means disqualifying come the Big Dance.
The reference was to Florida’s recent escape against South Carolina.
Of course, the same can be said of Louisville’s fending off of Eastern Kentucky. Thanks to a late layup by broken-thumbed Noah Waterman.
It happens.
Especially as the season grinds from January to February, and some fatigue sets in even for the most settled of squads. Continue reading Sunday Afternoon PG