Before we shift our full focus to Charleston, before we start talking about possible rankings and whatever, let’s just pause, just for a moment, maybe even till Monday, to acknowledge 20-0.
I’m not totally certain, but no way anybody else has done this, ever, in the history of Division I college basketball, right? A 20-GAME league schedule is practically unheard of. To WIN all of those games?
The temptation is to call it absurd. But I won’t. I’ll just call it what it is.
Amazing.
Really it is.
It’s just an incredibly fine thing.
To have 10 other teams in your conference, and to beat every one of them TWICE, your gym, their gym, on nights, off nights, good refs, bad refs, and to finish it off by beating a 20-win team, at its place, on its senior night, and to BEAT THEM DOWN?
“I told them in the locker room,” Coach McKillop said after the game here. “In 35 years of coaching I have never been a part of such an accomplishment.”
Heck of a statement.
And Steph. Not a half-bad way to wrap up Southern Conference Player of the Year, huh? Oh, and so much for that “only”-29-points-in-two-games “slump.” He took 17 shots and 13 of them went in. He took nine threes and seven of them went in. That was good for 35 points, and in just 26 minutes, which is about as efficient as it gets. There was one three, real early on, like five minutes in, when Steph got it in transition, on the left wing, and was just silly open. Cue Steph Curry, and again, and again, and again, and again …
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