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Thursday, March 20, 2008
A team that won’t be forgotten
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Well, we’ll always have Atlanta.
The basketball Bulldogs’ remarkable post-season run of bucking the odds may have come to an end Thursday, but that doesn’t make their achievement in winning the SEC tournament and making it to the first round of the Big Dance any less remarkable.
And although the team will miss Sundiata Gaines and Dave Bliss considerably, there’s promising talent on the way and the nucleus of a pretty good team, if only Dennis Felton can coach a little more consistency into them. In the end, the season-long tendency to get up by a double-digit lead and then go cold caught up with the Dawgs. In the SEC tournament, they were somehow able to shake it off and get back in the games. This time, they appeared to have run out of gas.
Let’s just hope that next year we finally get a chance to see what a season under Felton is like WITHOUT a ton of personnel losses and off-court drama.
In the meantime, this bunch of Bulldogs can hold their heads high. They’ve written a chapter in UGA athletic lore that will be long talked about.
