This IS getting a little scarey.  BP is setting the bar waaaaayyy too high.  I suppose there is nothing to do but go all Zen and just live in, and enjoy, the moment.  Still, it's hard not to hope ...

CAFKIA

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It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
  - William G. McAdoo

Buzz Peterson never took a team to the NCAA's.  Kevin O'Neill's first team certainly didn't make it.  Better double-check that report you read.

Bruce Pearl's stock is soaring, and while some letdown is inevitable, I think he knows how to manage adversity.  Remember: 13 years as a head coach, never a losing season.  And anyway, as long as they keep playing as hard as they have been -- and there's no reason to expect them to stop -- I'll be devoted whether they play .500 or win the conference.

HOME-GROAN

 from the article:

"He just killed us," Smith said of Lofton.

UK fans probably considered it a suicide. So did Smith. When asked if he regretted the decision not to offer Lofton a scholarship, the UK coach said, "Yeah."

When a reporter followed up by asking whether the UK coach had a "little or a lot" of regret, Smith snapped, "I said yes."

Here are two things I don't recall hearing on a Tennessee men's basketball broadcast before, and I heard both last night:

-- This is an extremely well-coached team. 

-- This team is playing now to improve its seeding in the NCAA tournament.  They could be as high as a two-seed.