SEC Championship Hangs In Balance As Florida Basketball Prepares for Alabama
At once, tonight's basketball game between Florida and Alabama is foreign and strangely familiar. This year's senior class: Adam Allen, Vernon Macklin, Chandler Parsons, and Alex Tyus, were each recruited to play collegiate basketball as the Gators were winning national championships. For Allen, Parsons, and Tyus (Macklin began at Georgetown), they were the first group to not have any part of the previous generation's postseason success. In other words, they would have to earn every bit of adoration, adulation, and notoriety for themselves. Tonight, they have a chance to add an accolade that few other Gator teams have: winning an SEC Championship. They'll do so against an Alabama team featuring one of Billy Donovan's close friends in the coaching fraternity, Crimson Tide Head Coach and former colleague Anthony Grant. Grant won two national titles with Donovan before departing for Virginia Commonwealth, but now the two will stand on opposite ends of the sideline, both coaching teams that are 11-3 in SEC play, both with a chance to take home an SEC championship with a win. Familiar and foreign, indeed.
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