Down 6-4 on the road  in the top of the ninth and with two outs against a good Missouri pitcher, Tyler Campbell singled to right, Ro singled to left, both moved up on a wild pitch to third and second respectively, and the awesomely clutch Jeren Kendall singled Tyler and Ro home to tie the game at 6. Bryan Reynolds followed with a towering shot to center field for a two run blast and Ben Bowden closed the deal for us out of the pen, as we took a huge first game at Missouri 8-6, when Jordan Sheffield may not have had his best stuff starting for us. Jordan will be fine, he just struggles with his control some, but he has electric stuff. Freshman Evan Steele came in and gave us two innings of great relief work. The southpaw really brings it. He’s going to be awesome. He was tonight. We’ve got a young team this season, but they are extremely talented. Reynolds, Kendall, Will Toffey, Campbell, Ro, Jason Delay and Karl Ellison give us some veteran leadership, so this team does have some vets. This was a super comeback by our team that struggled a little last week, but looked like another outstanding Tim Corbin, coached team. Got Mizzou tomorrow at 5 PM CT/6PM ET on the SEC Network and then Sunday, at Noon CT/1 PM ET on the SEC Network. Also on SEC+ on the computer if you have the Elite Eight on the big screen. This is going to be a fun team to watch develop and keep getting better. Tonight was huge. 

No pitchers announced yet for tomorrow or Sunday. I have a feeling Kyle Wright will pitch one of the games but not sure about the other. Kyle has usually been going on Sundays, but we’ll see what Corbs decides. Will let you know who we’re throwing before the game tomorrow. We are now 18-4 overall and 2-2 in the SEC and ranked fifth in the country by D1 baseball.com.  

Addendum: Right hander Kyle Wright is on the mound for us tonight. Kyle is 4-0 with a 1.77 ERA. He has walked four and struck out 25. Great pitcher. Kyle will be opposed by Missouri right hander Tanner Houck, who is 2-2 with a 2.65 ERA. Tomorrow’s pitcher for us is to be determined. Mizzou will throw left hander Austin Tribby, who is 2-2, with a 4.40 ERA. 

Men’s tennis with a tremendously gutsy victory over No.7 Texas A&M, 4-3, at home.Huge win from our No.1 player, Daniel Valent, who defeated No. 18 in the country, Arthur Rinderkneck, 6-2, 3-6, 6-4. Daniel is ranked #67 in the country. Our No.3 singles player, Cameron Klinger, clinched it with a gutsy 6-7, 6-4, 7-6 victory over No. 90 Jordi Arconada of A&M. Cameron is No.92 in the country. Baker Newman also won at No.4 singles and we won the doubles point. In tennis, it’s the order of finish in singles that determines the outcome. After we won the doubles’ point, Cameron was huge coming back from 4-3, 5-4 and 6-5 in the third set to clinch the match at No.3 . Awesome effort by the guys who moved to 12-8 on the season, but have now won three in a row SEC matches. We beat No.17 Kentucky a couple of weeks ago and Tennessee last week. We’re No.49 in the country now and we should move up this week in the ITA rankings (InterCollegiate Tennis Association).

Our No. 5 Women’s tennis team is in a huge tilt tomorrow at home at noon CT against the No.3 Georgia Bulldogs. The girls are coming off a 7-0 victory over Tennessee on Thursday. We are now 11-4 and 4-2 in the SEC and ranked fifth in the country by the ITA. Hope there’s a good crowd at the tennis courts to support the girls as they face a top flight opponent. Would be a tremendous victory if we can get it.

Just in: The No.5 girls beat No.3 Georgia, 4-3. More tomorrow 

Men’s golf, coming off a sensational performance at the Schenkel Invitational, which we won beating teams like No.4 Auburn, No.10 Wake Forest and No.19 UNC among others, plays in the Farmlinks Collegiate Match Play against Alabama, Auburn and Georgia Tech, three top 25 teams, in Sylacauga, Alabama tomorrow at Farmlinks Golf Club. Freshman Will Gordon shot a 63 on the final day of the Schenkel played at Forest Heights Country Club in Statesboro, GA.Sophomore Theo Humphrey shot a 67 and freshman Patrick Martin shot 69. We shot -41 for the tournament, and -19 on the final day, last Sunday. We beat second place Wake by 10 shots as they shot -31. Super effort by the guys. Coach Scott Limbaugh likes this format we’re going to play in tomorrow as the postseason features a lot of match play, so this will be good for us.

Just in: Our No. 10 golf team defeated Ga. Tech this morning in match play at Farm Links Course in Sylacauga, Alabama, and are up this afternoon on No.4 Auburn 2-1 with three other matches all square. More on that tomorrow too. Now we lead Auburn in 3 matches we’re losing one and we’re all square in two. Will have final stuff tomorrow. 

Brandt has reached the Sweet 16 of the WGC Dell Match Play . Brandt plays No.2 in the world Jason Day tomorrow. Brandt is No.15 in the world. Brandt plays Day at 8:03 AM CT/9:03 AM ET. Would be tremendous for Brandt to pull this off and get him really ready for Augusta National. Luke List is -4 after round two at the Puerto Rico Open. Luke is tied for 21st. Rafael Campos leads at -9. 

Brandt lost 3&2 to Jason Day in the Sweet 16 of the Match Play today. Just couldn’t get anything going today.

Luke -5 through 3 rounds at the Puerto Rico Open, tied for 19th. Ian Poulter leads at -11, but Luke having a good tournament. 

Luke and Jon Curran playing in the Shell Houston Open next week, the week before the Masters to see if they can win it and get it. Brandt taking next week off to prepare for Augusta National. I think B has a real shot. 

Football spring game was played tonight. I’ve got to spend Sunday morning watching without any white noise before that and I will give a full report late Sunday afternoon on the game. This basketball Sweet 16 and our baseball team had me occupied tonight, but will definitely have a football write up Sunday, along with Women’s tennis, men’s golf, Brandt, Luke  and, of course, baseball stuff. MLB season starts next weekend. Pedro hit a grand slam and a double last Sunday for the Orioles driving in five runs. Would love to see Pedro get a real chance with the Orioles. Mike Minor with the KC Royals, David, of course, with the BoSox, Sonny with the A’s and Ryan Flaherty with the O’s as well. We might see Tony Kemp, Carson Fulmer and/or Dansby up in the big leagues this season. 

I think we’re done with Kevin Stallings and are about to start actively looking for a new head basketball coach. No official word from VU, but so many sources have reported that Stallings will not be back. After thinking about this today, this isn’t bad to be deliberate about our coaching search and even wait till Final Four weekend next weekend where every coach in the country will be. Mark Few, Ben Jacobson, they’ll all be there. I’m not totally against Will Wade of VCU, I just think we can do better.  

Got the Shockers of Wichita State tonight in the second game of the First Four in Dayton, Ohio at UD Arena. Tip off is set for 8:10 PM CT/9:10 PM ET and will be televised by TruTV, part of the Turner Network of stations. On Directv, TruTV is on channel 246, on Charter HD Cable, it’s on channel 772, on Dish Network, it’s on Channel 204, and on Comcast it’s 841, I believe, not positive on Comcast, but I know it does air on Comcast. The other station listings are accurate.

The Shockers finished their season at 24-8, losing to a really good Northern Iowa team in the semifinals of the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament, 57-52. Northern Iowa is a very good team that won the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament, though Wichita State won the regular season title, and I picked Northern Iowa to defeat Texas in their first round matchup Friday night in my bracket. Northern Iowa actually beat North Carolina, 71-67, at home in November, so they’re for real and losing to them is nothing to get down about, that’s for sure. Northern Iowa finished their season 22-12, and 11-7 in the conference. The Shockers were 16-2 in the conference with losses to Illinois State on the road, 58-53, which is coached by former Commodore assistant Dan Muller, and Northern Iowa at home, 53-50. The Shockers don’t have any major wins and have losses also to Alabama, 64-60, in a tournament in Orlando in late November, Tulsa, another tournament team, 77-67 at Tulsa,  and Iowa, a very solid Big Ten team in the tournament, at Orlando in November, 84-61. 

They did go to the Final Four three years ago in 2013, and have a two or three players from that team, one of whom is Ron Baker, a redshirt senior 6’4″, 210 guard, who averages 14.2 ppg. He shoots 36% from three, 59-of-155, which is a little lower percentage than he has been shooting the past couple of years. But he’s always been a big time player for them. Their point guard, Fred VanVleet, is 6 feet, 186, and averages 12 points per game and 5.7 assists per game. He’s outstanding. He doesn’t take a ton of threes, but he’s a 41% three point shooter, 40-of-97. Both are good free throw shooters, Baker shooting it at 79% and VanVleet at 82%. The Shockers defend well, giving up only 59 points per game, and they average 73 points per game themselves. They average 37.5 rebounds per game, and we average 38.6. We give up 67 points per game, so we are going to HAVE to defend well and hit the glass hard. 

Wade Baldwin averages 14.2 points per game and 5.2 assists per game. We need a really good night from Wade. We average about 12 turnovers per game, and we really need to keep that down under 10 and even in the 6-7 range. Damian is averaging 14.2 ppg and 6.9 rbg. He also has 52 blocks this season. Luke is averaging 9 points, but pulls down 7.2 rebounds per game and has 82 blocks on the season. We need that kind of intimidating presence in the paint from Damian and Luke. And we need them to score. Luke needs to give us 10-12 points and eight or 10 boards with some swats to go along with those other skills, and Damian needs to give us 16-18 points and 8-10 boards. MFD and Jeff need to do what they do, which is shoot it well, play solid D, and just make their typical hustle plays. Need six or seven threes from those two combined. Riley, Josh, Nolan, Joe, Cam and even Samir, if Kevin needs him, need to really be impactful when they’re on the floor. 

But we really need to defend and board from the opening tip. We usually shoot it well, though we didn’t against UT in the first half last Thursday and that cost us along with Tennessee sinking every shot they put up. 

We’ve just got to be ready to play at the start of the game and have a sense of urgency right away. This is it for us. It’s win or go home. We don’t want to go home.

Prediction

Wade and Damian play well, along with the other three in our starting five, and Riley and the bench give us good minutes, and our defense gets the job done because we’ll have to defend. Like our guys to move on tonight and play Arizona Thursday Night at 8:20 CT/9:20 ET in Providence, Rhode Island on TNT in the South Regional. But this is all we need to worry about, this game, tonight.

VU 66, Wichita State 62

Baseball swept Xavier last weekend. We are now 15-1 and ranked No.2 in the country by D1baseball.com, the preeminent authority on college baseball. We have Northern Illinois today at 6:30 PM CT/7:30 PM ET on SEC Network+ on the computer, and Mississippi State will come into the Hawk this weekend for games Friday through Sunday. Friday’s game is at 7 PM CT/8 PM ET on the SEC Network, and Saturday’s game is at 7:30 PM CT/8:30 PM ET on the SEC Network. Sunday’s game is at 1 PM CT/2 PM ET on SEC Network+. Will have much  more on baseball coming up this week for sure, along with women’s tennis, which has been struggling a little lately with two losses on the road last week in SEC play against South Carolina and Florida, two outstanding teams, but will right the ship very soon, starting with a home match Thursday at 4 PM CT/5 PM ET against a good A&M  team. The match will be broadcast by SEC Network+. Then we have a home match Saturday at noon CT/ 1 PM ET versus a good LSU team, they’re all good in this conference, which will not be televised, but I’ll have a report on it. The girls are 8-4 and ranked seventh in the country by the ITA, the International Tennis Association. Feel very confident Geoff and the girls will get it going, starting Thursday. I’ll also talk some golf, too. Men have a match this weekend at the Schenkel Invitational at Statesboro, Georgia on Friday.

Also, football information that comes up, will be posted here. Spring game is Friday, March 25th, at 6 PM CT/7 PM ET, in the stadium and will be televised on the SEC Network.

Will have a full report tomorrow on tonight’s game and a recap of baseball from today and what’s going on with the baseball team. It’s going well. Hopefully, our bball team gets it done tonight in Dayton.

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Not a good way to end the season with a 76-67 loss to A&M on the road. Really had high hopes going in thinking we could beat A&M and gain a two seed in the SEC tourney, and get a double bye, and not have to play until Friday. Not much to talk about from the A&M game. Damian fouled out again. Some calls were questionable on him, without a doubt, but he HAS to stay in the game for us. I’d like to see us use our bench more. Nolan Cressler, Joe Toye, and even Samir Sehic are quality players. We played Cam Justice, who sank a couple of triples, Can is a stud, and Riley did an excellent job off the bench. He sank a couple of trifectas which was awesome to see. Riley shooting well could be a huge pick me up for this team. He is an important player for us. Wade played well. Wade finished with  11 points, eight assists only two turnovers, and Damian got it going a little before fouling out. We did sink 11-of-11 free throws. Wade was 6-of-6 and Damian was 3-of-3, which is awesome to see. 

We’ve just got to regroup this week and get ready for the Auburn-UT winner. Our first game will be Thursday at 2 PM CT/3 PM ET on the SEC Network. Even though we got a fifth seed in the tournament, our seeding is pretty favorable. If we beat the AU-UT winner, which I’m going with Auburn in that one because I like Pearl over Rick Barnes, we would play LSU in the quarters on Friday at 2 PM CT/3 PM ET or 25 minutes after the first game on the SEC Network, and if we beat Ben Simmons and company, we’d play Saturday at noon CT/1 PM ET on ESPN versus most likely A&M. If we beat A&M, we’d be in the finals versus most likely Kentucky @ noon CT/1 PM ET on ESPN. So we’ve got a shot.

“Brackets” has us as a #9 seed right now in the NCAA’s playing #8 USC in the first round with the winner playing Virginia, which will play the 16th seed, so that’s a guaranteed W for UVA. It’s always subject to change. Brackets does an outstanding job of predicting the tournament, but this thing is fluid. The conference tournaments could change things. Brackets has Kansas, North Carolina, Nova and UVA as one seeds, but Michigan State, if they win the Big Ten conference tourney and one of the four fall early in their respective conference tourneys, could move into a one seed. It’s really an exciting time in sports. This tournament is a total spectacle, it’s electric to watch. Will have my bracket on my regular blog next Monday or Tuesday. There will be a lot of meditation and emails with my minister to try to figure the NCAA tourney out. The meditation worked last year as I picked Duke to win it all and they did. My minister is in his first year, so I will use that resource this year. He’s a great man, and loves football and sports in general. He dogs me when I miss a pick, particularly if it’s against his Pittsburgh Steelers, which I did in the playoffs against Cincy, in which the Bengals imploded with the likes of running back Jeremy Hill fumbling late in the game with it seemingly locked up, linebacker Vontaze Burfict, with a personal foul to give the Steelers great field position, and Pacman Jones, with an unsportsmanlike that sealed the Steelers kicking a game winning field goal to win by two, just handing the game to the Steelers on a silver platter. Dr Carl let me have it the next day. But I’ll use him as a resource this year. I’ll use any resource available to get this right. So deep meditation and conferences with Dr Carl by email are definitely on the docket.

We’ve got to get back to the way we were playing against Florida and Kentucky. Those were awesome games. Jeff Roberson has been terrific for us all season. I love Jeff. He’s such a heart, team player, and he’s highly skilled and he and Wade bring very good toughness to the team. Damian and Luke really need to dig in, in the middle, MFD needs to be MFD and shoot the lights out of Bridgestone Arena in Nashville. If Riley can get it going also, that would be huge. We’ll be at home, though not at Memorial, but we’ll have our own rooms and beds to sleep in, which is another bonus. The Big Blue Nation will be out in full force, like they always are, but we really need our fans to show up. If we can win this thing, it would be huge for this basketball team. We won it in 2012, but for some reason, this year seems more important. Getting to the finals would be good, but winning it would give this team a highly positive mental boost going into the big tournament. Can we get it done? Yes, absolutely, if we play to our capacity. We have a ton of talent, and we’ve shown we can beat a Florida team by 14 on the road recently in a very tough environment, and also beat a Kentucky team that is star-studded and is a definite Final Four contender. We’ve got that potential, in my opinion, if we can really dig in on defense and the boards and make our open looks from three and Damian, Luke and Josh can also score in the middle, particularly Damian. We need great shooting from MFD, Riley, Wade and Jeff. Jeff can take it to the glass and score. We need that from him. He’s been outstanding this year for us, I’d call him our most valuable player. Jeff’s an unsung, lunch pale, blue collar player for us, who makes a lot of winning plays. We need that from him at Bridgestone. Wade needs to take care of the ball and be Wade, playing with the toughness he always brings and scoring at the rim, getting us in fast break opportunities and shooting well from distance and mid range. All those things need to happen for us to win this thing and advance to the NCAA’s with a ton of momentum. Will we win this? If those things all happen, we will. It’s crunch time for our basketball team. Everybody needs to step up their game. It’s March.

Baseball

Our baseball team, ranked second in the country by D-1 baseball, took two of three from Stanford at Palo Alto over the weekend. We had some weather issues out there, but got great pitching and timely hitting in a 5-2 victory over the Cardinal to clinch the series yesterday. We moved to 10-1 overall with the victory. Catcher Jason Delay was 2-for-3 with a couple of Ribeyes, including a run producing RBI double. Freshman second baseman Alonzo Jones was 2-for-4. Third baseman Will Toffey had a two-run double as well. We got excellent pitching from starter Kyle Wright, who went five, giving up four hits, two earned, with no walks and four K’s. Ryan Johnson, Collin Snider, who I’m looking at as an important piece on our pitching staffing this season, maybe a weekend starter, Matt Ruppenthal all pitched well in relief and Hayden Stone finished it off for the save. Hayden is back a lot earlier than anticipated, and I watched him in the ninth against the Cardinal yesterday on the Pac-12 Network and he looked very good. He was throwing it 91 with his heat, and his breaking ball was sharp. He looked like Hayden Stone from two years ago. That’s an excellent sign if we can get Hayden back into that closer role, because he is clutch. We played a doubleheader Thursday and lost the first game, 4-1, but won the second, 4-1. Ben Bowden got the victory in the second game, going five, allowing two hits and one run, which was unearned, with one walk and four K’s. Ben is very much in the weekend rotation plans if he keeps this up. Hayden picked up his first save in that game. We lost the first game. Jordan Sheffield gave up nine hits and two earned in five innings, but didn’t walk anybody and struck out six. Just need to hone Jordan up a little more as we get closer to conference play. Jordan is still pitching very well with a 2-1 record and a 1.59 ERA with just four walks and 24 K’s. He brings it high 90’s, which is terrific. He’s got all the tools. He just needs to fine tune it a little bit heading into SEC play. Jordan could very well be our Friday night guy. Right fielder Jeren Kendall is still leading the team in hitting at .442 with three homers and 16 Ribbies. Center fielder Bryan Reynolds is hitting .385 with two homers and 11 RBIs, and Alonzo is hitting .351 with a homer and 14 Ribbies. Will Toffey is only hitting .250 right now, but Will should get it going soon. He’s too good a hitter to not get it going. He plays outstanding third base, too. We’re great at catcher with Delay and Karl Ellison. Both are experienced juniors, who know how to handle our pitchers, and both can hit, particularly Delay. Jason is an awesome hitter. Our fielding is outstanding. We are fielding at a .983 percentage, which is superb. Our opponents are at .945. We have only committed seven errors in 11 games, and 411 chances. Love the way we defend. That’s so crucial along with the pitching and hitting. 

We play Radford tomorrow, the start of a two game set with a team from south central Virginia that was good last year.They’re 2-9 this season, but they finished 45-16 last year, and we ended up beating them in our regional final, on our way to our second consecutive CWS, where we finished runner up, after winning it the year before. It was our third appearance in the College World Series. We also went to Omaha in 2011. After two games with Radford, tomorrow and Wednesday, we’ll host Xavier for a weekend series, then Northern Illinois? Are you kiddin me? comes in to play us next Wednesday, 3-15. Then we start SEC play with State coming into town, Friday-Sunday, March 18th-20th. More on those games later. Should be a heckuva season. We’ve got an outstanding team. Just need  to get some more hitting from Toffey and some of our better hitters, and solidify our pitching. The SEC is loaded. Florida is No.1 in the country, and LSU, A&M and all of the rest of the teams are tough. It’s a war in the SEC, very similar to football. But we’ve got the players to make some serious noise come May and June. 

Women’s tennis

Geoff McDonald’s tennis team downed a good Kentucky team, 5-2, yesterday. Kentucky came in ranked No.17 in the country. No. 25 Sydney Campbell (national ranking), No.16 Frances Altick, Courtney Colton, Georgina Sellyn and Fernanda Contreras, all won in singles. No.23 Astra Sharma lost her match, 3 and 4, but Astra has been hurt and was a little rusty yesterday. Astra will get back to her usual form going forward. We are presently ranked No.8 in the country by the ITA rankings. Ohio State is still Numero Uno. We’re 8-2 overall and 1-0 in the SEC. We play at South Carolina on Thursday and at Florida on Saturday. South Carolina is ranked 12th and Florida is 15th, so we have our work cut out for us. But we have an outstanding team, that loves to work hard and compete. Geoff will have this group primed for the postseason come late April in the SEC’s and the NCAA’s. 

Men’s golf

Our men’s golf team finished 6th out of 15 teams at the Querencia Cabo Collegiate tournament in Mexico. Junior Matthias Schwab shot 68, -3, on the last day. Freshman Patrick Martin shot one over, 72, sophomore Theo Humphrey shot 1 under, 70, and freshman Will Gordon shot one over, 72. We’ve got some good young players, who are gaining valuable experience, and we’ll be factors in May. We’re ranked 15th in the country at the moment by Golfstat.com. Our next competition is at the Schenkel Invitational in Statesboro, GA. on Friday, March 18th. 

On the professional side, Luke and JC are playing in the Valspar Championship this weekend in Tampa. Luke is playing well this season, which is great to see, and Jon’s been solid. JC is presently 50th in the FedEx rankings and Luke is 90. Luke finished T-10 at the Honda last week, so he’s gaining momentum.

Brandt is having a stellar year, having won at Torrey Pines in the Farmers Insurance Open in late January. He’s presently No.3 in the FedEx Cup standings. He had to withdraw over the weekend from the WGC-Cadillac Championship because of a rib injury. Hopefully it’s nothing serious. He has had some problems with his ribs in the past, but the issue had gone away with medication. Brandt did say he was taking a “proactive” approach, so it may have been just a precautionary step, and won’t affect him going forward. Brandt will not play this week at the Valspar, but the Arnie Invitational is the next week at Bay Hill, a huge tournament with all the big names play in it, so hopefully, Brandt will be healthy for that. Brandt is still getting tuned up for Augusta National, April 7th-10th. If healthy, Brandt has a good shot. He usually plays well at the Masters and a victory there is No.1 on his bucket list.

Will have stuff on our pro baseball guys coming up as the MLB season gets closer. David firmly entrenched with the BoSox, most likely for the rest of his career, which is good. DP needs a home after getting moved around so much the last couple of years. Pedro still looking for a team. The Yankees are a possibility. I don’t know why any team wouldn’t want Pedro’s bat, and I watched him closely last year at Pittsburgh and he fielded pretty well at first base. Pedro has always been a good fielder, but had some struggles early at third with the Pirates and hasn’t been able to shake an unfair rap placed on him. He’s a big leaguer, and a good one, if some team would just give him a shot. Mike Minor was signed by the KC Royals, so that’s awesome news. Sonny, of course, will be back with the A’s, and everybody is expecting a huge year from Sonny. He’s going to be a popular commodity when he goes up for free agency, either after this season or next. Will check on that. Ryan Flaherty, I think, is still with the O’s. Gotta check on that, too. And we have a ton of players in the minors. Dansby at Atlanta is huge for him. I see the Braves building like the Astros have and see them as a factor come 2017 when they move into their new stadium. Hopefully, Dans will be their starting shortstop. He’s playing in his home town, so I know he’s elated about that. I’m expecting Carson to matriculate quickly through the minors. ESPN college baseball analyst Kyle Peterson said during the CWS last year, that he wouldn’t be surprised if the White Sox call Carson up very soon. He could be in their rotation this season before the year is over with. Tony Kemp is getting closer and closer to becoming a major leaguer for the Astros. it’s time for Tony to be a starter in the big leagues. He’s such a stud. Love that baseball is in the air now. I don’t know if my wife does. She wants to watch movies and shows sometimes in the summer, so there can be a conflict at times with my baseball teams. But she’s a champ. We both make adjustments.

Football just finished off the first two weeks of spring ball. Wade Freebeck had a really good practice Friday and is challenging Kyle Shurmur for the starting job. Defense playing well. We have some guys out right now with minor injuries, but they should be fine coming back from spring break next week. We’ve got a pretty favorable schedule. We open with South Carolina on Thursday, Sept. 1st, no time announced yet. Either 5 PM or 8:15 PM on ESPN I would assume. Our defense should be terrific. I love our new coaches. If our offense can start clicking starting against South Carolina, we could have a very good season. Our defense will be stellar. Have to stay healthy of course. As healthy as you can in college football.  

Will have more coming up soon.