MBB OGT: NCAA Tournament FINAL FOUR -- (1) Auburn vs (1) FLORIDA --April 5, 2025 -- 6:09 PM [CBS]

This photo makes a superb desktop wallpaper for those of us living in the heart of Vol Country.

 

What’s for dinner? Cougar Caserol! Go gators, national champions!

 

Re-watched this game last night. We really shut Broome down in the 2d half. AMart's two slam-dunks...amazing.

 

The guys that shut Broome down are all back, and each will be a little bit stronger and a lot more experienced. And if one of them goes down, I hear Mikic is ready to step up. From brief practice clips, I can see he's got potential.
We're going to miss Martin's top-flight athleticism, strength, and competitiveness. If he's not our best perimeter defender ever, he's gotta be in the top five. Right there with Brewer, Wilbekin, and Slap Maxwell.

 

Noteworthy: Broome asserted some level of "big-boy-basketball" in his pre-halftime interview, implying whomever was on him wasn't up to the task. Woops.

Also, on AMart's first breakaway dunk, you can see Broome looking back over his shoulder as he ran down the court already blaming a teammate that Broome must have felt made the mistake. Seriously, dude, focus on stopping our guy unless...you can't keep up with big-boy-basketball.

 

Chinyelu was phenomenal that second half. IIRC, we didn't give much help (maybe late help, if Broome was going left?), but he was insanely physical with Broome. Reminded me of Pat Young at times. Impossible to dislodge.

 

I look forward to Chiny developing even more than he did over the course of last season.

And improving his FT %. :-D