FLORIDA LOSES. GEORGIA, YOU'RE NEXT.

Hard to hate on that.

Vanderbilt showed some actual toughness on the road last night in a tight win over Florida.  Jenkins had a real coming-out party (not that kind of coming out party), hitting six threes and making a couple nice defensive plays.  A.J. got pretty aggressive, which was good to see, although Vernon Macklin made him his bitch a few times.  Wasn't counting on that.  In the end, Florida was pretty cold from outside and that was their undoing despite holding a pretty solid lead for a chunk of the second half.  Second place is all but assured for the Commies now, barring a late collapse from our beloved Wahhhhldcayuts.

Speaking of which, Los Gatos Locos are heading down to Athens tonight to play the toughest losing team ever, Los Perros Toros.  One of my favorite things is putting Spanish words into normal English dialogue.  It drives my wife crazy.  My dad does it all the time, too.  My mom tries to do it, but it mostly turns into English words with -O at the end, like "truck-o" and "horse-o".  It gets funnier if you're drinking.  Anyway, the Dawgs played the Cats scary close at Rupp earlier this season, so there's reason for some consternation by the Kentucky faithful.  That gets worse when you realize that Trey Thompkins is a load in the paint and really gets after it, and that Leslie guy turns into a poor man's Devan Downey on occasion.  I think Cousins is going to have a better time with Thompkins this time around, but he'll have to play smart.  All that sort of goes away if Kentucky breaks its awful perimeter shooting streak, which has been the subject of a lot of conversation around the inter-tubes since Saturday's loss to Tennessee.

Georgia's tough.  The Cats really don't need another league loss, because it would put them in a tie with Vandy for 1st and even though we own the tiebreaker, it's still not cool.  If Kentucky concentrates for the entire 40 minutes, something they haven't done often this year, they'll win.  If not, then the damn Florida game on Sunday gets a lot more important.  Come on, Cats, you shouldn't have waited so long to clinch the league.  Get your act together.  VAMANOS!