UGH, GATORS.

This has nothing to do with basketball, but dammit it's funny. HT: Warming Glow.

Kentucky's Senior/Junior/Not Gonna Be Here Next Season Night/Day/Late Morning is on Sunday, with tipoff at noon.  Lexington's parsons, priests and pastors would be distressed and upset with this infringement upon God's holy sermon schedule, but they're too busy trying to find tickets and buying Mark Krebs t-shirts.  We play Florida.  I really, really hate Florida.  But the Gators are probably more than a little interested in the outcome of the game because it sort of, you know, determines whether they'll be dancing or slumming it in the NIT again.  Given their recent track record, the NIT is a probability.  Vanderbilt took the Alligators' best shot on Tuesday and won anyway. Kentucky beat them pretty handily earlier in the season, too.  So what's there to worry about, other than losing the game, an outright SEC regular season title, and a potential #1 seed in the NCAAT?

A quick take on the matchups: Walker and Boynton are good, but as we (more likely I) saw on Wednesday and Thursday, a single guy can guard them, and Wall and Bledsoe/Liggins/whoever else at the 2 can stop anyone when they care enough.  I expect Cousins to guard Macklin, who's getting more assertive these days but come on, it's Cousins.  Tyus is sort of an x-factor but Patrick has played otherworldly lately so screw balding Predator on that one.  Finally, since it's Ramon's Senior Day, he'll probably be in charge of Parsons or Werner who sucks, so as long as those guys are zeroed out, Ramon wins.

I get to go to this one, but any hope of pre-drinking before the game and Senior festivities is probably shot because Lexington thinks beer and Sundays go together like Oprah and a treadmill.  Go Cats, anyway.