GATORS DIDN'T BLOW IT THIS TIME...THEY TRIED, THO.

It's 7:36 a.m., Patrick is downstairs cruising for crumbs, Junior is sacked out on a couch and Stephen is sacked out, but watching/listening to a DVD on another couch. (He is concious).

Welll Gators hung on in the second round to barely defeat Arkansas 74-71. The Gators led the entire game, with the exception of two very brief one point leads early in the game by the hogs.The Gators did better than the score imlies, until they started to unravel at the end. The lead by as much as 12 in the first half, which ended 33-29, with UF at a +154 L.A. They led the entire second half, by as much as 13 with three minutes to go. Then they fell apart. The buzzer that ended the game was the only thing that saved them from becoming losers for a second time to the pigs. Points off turnovers kept Arkansas in the game. Gator's 10 3 pointers saved them.

Lead Advantage at the end of the game went to Gators at +499.

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SEC TOURNAMENT: Gators face LSU, the best team in the SEC this afternoon. It's do-able, but a stretch. We'll see. If the Reptiles can get past the Tigers today they'll face the winner of the Kentucky-South Carolina game in the finals on TV Sunday. (Tennessee is out of it) We've beaten Kentucky twice in the regular season. USC has beaten us twice--who do we want to play? S.C. Gamecocks!!!!

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GO GATORS!

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Junior and I were shown a house yesterday in Manchester , an overpiced fixer upper bank repo. Pass.

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