Joel Berry’s health is an issue worth monitoring, and they’ve got no chance to beat OR if Justin Jackson goes cold in the semifinals, but right now there’s not another team that I’d bet on to end up as the champion in Phoenix.
“We’ve been in that situation before, ” said the SEC’s Most Valuable Player who prepped at Oak Hill (Va.) Academy. In fact, he likes it.
“Anyone that’s in sports dreams of moments like this”, said Martin.
Before he addressed the question, Coach Martin addressed the person asking the question. The Tar Heels (31-7) play OR (33-5) in the second semifinal. “Hey, they all call him by his first name”.
Among the players who have won the Most Outstanding Player Award over the years, Duke’s Tyus Jones (2015) and Louisville’s Luke Hancock (2013) are two examples of players who were key players on their teams but far from the top catalysts heading into the Final Four. It’s just consistently, it gets old and boring.
Martin has been able to take the program to new heights this year.
Instead, they would have signed with an out-state school, perhaps one in the ACC or the Big East or maybe elsewhere.
“I think”, White says, “our league is going to be even better next season”. I was lucky to have the group that I had a year ago, and it hurt a great deal.
The Lady Bears were without Alexis Jones and Kalani Brown for most of that quarter as they each picked up their second foul and remained on the bench until the third quarter. So I coached for 16 years in high school; 13, 14 of the 16 in the same neighborhood I grew up in. Every time I’m in a hard moment and I’ve got to make a choice and do right or do wrong.
“I’m speechless, man, honestly”, said Dozier. “So I had to go back and coach the sons, the younger brothers of people I grew up with”. “I remember them coming out and it was a great game”. “I’m happy for those guys that came in and were on a mission”. “And I’ve never been a part of that”. He won 68% of his games before deciding to take the head coaching position at SC in 2012. He transferred from a Nebraska junior college to Eastern New Mexico in 1978.
After Wright’s jumper at the 4:23 mark made it 30-27, SC closed the half with a 10-2 spurt.
The South Carolina women’s program has enjoyed plenty of success under coach Dawn Staley. “Those are the things that draw players into him”.
“Since we’ve gone to a smaller lineup, it’s created more scoring opportunities for Kaela, more driving lanes for her to get to the basket and more opportunity for her to pull up”, Dawn Staley said. It’ll certainly be the more-hyped game, and it probably should be.
“This is what I’ve personally been looking forward to for the longest, so I’m excited”.
“He is going to treat us like grown men, so we act like grown men”, freshman Rakym Felder told Wilson. The results of those scrimmages aren’t public, but FSU head coach Sue Semrau said they’ve been valuable for the team. It was “no big deal”, he said. Those are the tears that are important to me. To varying degrees, you’ll get those from the Orange should they be placed on your schedule. Not to mention, they’re insane when it comes to rebounding. They don’t give you any easy looks in the paint. It’s pretty consistent. But that’s how I started. “I am who I am”.