UGA blog finds new home
Morning all. As I’ve said a couple of times this week, we’re converting this blog over to a WordPress platform and it will be a permanent move the first of next week.
Those of you who are regulars probably know that I’m not what you’d call techno-wizard when it comes to these things. But from what I understand the technology offered in this new format should make the blogging and commenting experience better for all. Of course, I’ll be learning as we go along, too. But I’m hoping to provide more pictures and video and things like that which should bring the blog more to life.
Of course, this blog is nothing without all you guys so I want to heartily invite (read: beg) you to come over to the new site by CLICKING HERE ON THE NEW ADDRESS and save it in your browsers. As of Monday, Feb. 23rd, this will be the permanent home of the UGA blog you so love or, in the case of some of you, love to loathe. If you’d prefer to copy and paste or just memorize, the new address is: http://blogs.ajc.com/uga-sports-blog/.
See at the new place!
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Friday, February 24, 2006
SEC second-best? Maybe not
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Big East is clearly the most powerful basketball conference in the nation this season and could have as many as half of its 16 teams receive NCAA tournament bids. But having seen every team in the SEC play this year, I’m not sure that it’s not the second-best league and may deserve to get six teams in.
Tennessee, Florida and LSU all have the ability to go deep in the Dance. You can never count out Tubby Smith’s Kentucky teams and Arkansas (18-8, 7-6 SEC) and Alabama (15-10, 8-5), both of which are playing well late in the season, are making good arguments to be included. East teams such as Georgia, Vanderbilt and South Carolina and Ole Miss in the West are formidable foes for any team on any given night and all are in the mix for possible NIT inclusion.
The thing that sets apart the SEC is the defense and I think that is going to be brought out in the NCAA tournament. Even Georgia’s Mike Mercer admitted, “that’s what the SEC is all about. It’s a rugged conference and it’s all about defense, not necessarily scoring. You go to the ACC if you want to see scoring.”
How many SEC teams do you think will get in and where do you think the conference is on the collegiate basketball totem pole?
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