Great win

Very impressive win for the hoop team today over the Imposter Dogs. I can tell what the emphasis was in practice for Coach Fox this week, REBOUNDING, after the performance against UT. Simply put, we DOMINATED Miss State rebouding the ball, I think we were a +15 rebouding which is outstanding. Our offensive rebounding was even more impressive. I don't have the stats in front of me but that effort rebounding was quite amazing compared to the effort against UT. Our bad free throw shooting came back today, fortunately though it didn't cost us anything this afternoon. We were 11-21 I believe from the line. I continue to be impressed with the play of Marcus Thornton. He already could rebound and play solid D, now he is starting to score some points as well. He was super aggressive today with his offensive rebounds, hit a nice three and just continues to gain more confidence-you can just see it in the way he plays now and also the fact Coach Fox is starting to insert in the lineup earlier each game it seems. Brantley is also getting better and better, he is starting to hit his open looks and I feel he can be a HUGE missing ingredient for us down the stretch, giving us another solid shooter coming off the bench. Also, I like the move of Barnes starting and Price coming off the bench, he responded with 11 points today and seemed to be motivated playing defense and rebouding the ball.

Up next is the Florida Gators as we conclude a 3 game homestand. UF has a 14-4 record entering play today, but has struggled lately, losing to SCarolina at home and the barely beating AU on the road. They play Ark tonight, going on right now so I will go try to catch the end of the game. Needless to say, we NEED to win that game heading to back to back road tests at UK and Ark. One trend I have noticed for sure, when UGA wins the game, they start amazingly fast and usually are in complete control early and hold on to that-the UK game was different in that UK actually came back and took a lead but we just seem to be in control of that game regardless of the situation. Miss and Miss State, just total domination from start to finish. The two losses, even though we led UT at home, you just got the sneaky feeling that something was just not right. Sure enough, we could never get over that hurdle, bad calls or not, and lost what could end of being a huge game for us. I hope it doesn't come back to haunt us but there is no doubt if we are sitting on the bubble, we will all remember that game come March. I will preview the UF game on Monday. Tomorrow is the NFC and AFC title games, still disappointed the Falcons are not there but hey, what can you do when a QB plays like Rodgers did last week. I am not a fan of either the Pack or the Bears but since the Pack beat the Falcons, I am hoping they represent the NFC, really don't care about the AFC rep. Hopefully we will find out some info tomorrow about how the visits went for Isiah Crowell and John Jenkins. I know I read the students were chanting Isiah at the hoops game. Signing day is a week from this upcoming Wed, WOW.