A month ago, I said---

“Reaching the NCAA Sweet 16”

would make this “a GREAT season”

for Florida basketball…

Anything beyond---“GRAVY”…

Ther're THERE---still looking ahead...

Riding atop “the SHORTEST SHOULDERS in

The Big Dance”---the Gators leaped

into the “FINAL 16”…

Five-foot-8 Erving Walker was

“10 feet tall” in Florida's

victorious stretch against UCLA…

After that---a “declaration” from

SEC player-of-the-year

Chandler Parsons---“We are NOT satisfied”…

Gators have “FRESH motivation”---

His NAME is "JIMMER"…

A year ago, BYU bounced Florida

in the NCAA's "first round"...

99-92 in DOUBLE overtime…

Florida got KO'd by “Jimmer Fredette”---

he scored 37…

THIS season, “Jimmer” is

America’s top pointmaker---

averaging 30 a game…

Thursday---on a FAR bigger

stage---the Sweet 16 in New Orleans---

we will witness ACT TWO of

“Gators versus Jimmer”…

Florida against Brigham Young…

Winner moves to

“The Elite Eight”---ALIVE for

the national championship…

Loser GOES HOME…

These Gators do know

"ONE THING for sure"---

"beating" Jimmer Fredette

will NOT be---"The Big Easy"...

And HOW 'BOUT FSU?...the Noles

squashed second-seed Notre Dame...

And, here's the GREAT STUFF---

for the first time EVER--OUR STATE

has TWO TEAMS in the Sweet 16...

I’m Hubert Mizell, and that’s what

I think.