Traditionally, I consider the NCAA tournament to be
ruined for me once there are no SEC teams left besides
Kentucky. As you can imagine, some years the NCAA
tournament gets ruined for me quite early.

Actually the only teams that I feel like lost
embarrassingly were Ole Miss and 'Bama. Even Ole
Miss had their moments, but in the end when they're
not making shots they're brutal to watch, and it
looked like UCLA ran them off the court. I don't
know what the deal was with Alabama. Florida
battled in a great game, and wasn't the only 5 to
struggle (three of them lost!), but still was
disappointing.

State and Georgia both had lousy draws that (see my
prior message) make me wonder if Lee Fowler
understands the point of the pod thing. State in
particular should feel proud of how they battled back
on the road. Georgia didn't seem to play real smart
down the stretch.

Ah well.....

Congratulations to Kentucky; it sounds like they
really took Tulsa's best shot and come out on top.
Prince is just unreal; I don't see how they're going
to replace all he does for them next year. But UK
rarely seems to have any problems reloading.

Now, as the rest of us (minus the NIT teams) ponder
next year, it's time to talk about player departures.
From surfing the message boards, it looks like
Haislip is now gone for sure. He's gotten an advance
from an agent and the whole thing, right?

Also I keep seeing the rumors about Nelson, but I
haven't followed it that closely. Sounds like most
of the UF fans wouldn't be too hurt to lose him.

Finally, as we head into the off-season, I'd like to
avoid the usual curve where my interest wanes very
quickly until the preseason. Of course that's
natural anyway, but i would like to keep some
discussion going during the off-season. Would anyone
be interested in setting up some kind of regular chat
every couple of weeks or so?

As always, AIM me at PhilipVU94 if you're interested
in something like this.

Later,

Philip


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