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A Little Love for the Chuckwagon

Joey Campbell

Nov 12th 2009

One of our favorite all-time Wildcat heroes, Chuck Hayes, is making quite a name for himself in the NBA.

With the Houston Rockets missing Yao Ming, Chuck has logged the bulk of the minutes available at center, despite his 6-6 frame. The results? Coaches and players are raving.

Check out the recent quotes on Hayes’ performance so far this season (for the record, he’s averaging 7 points, 7 rebounds, 2 steals and 2 assists):

“He’s incredible,” Rockets Coach Rick Adelman said. “You watch...

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SEC Prediction Time

Joey Campbell

Nov 12th 2009

There is no other way to put it. Last season, the SEC was down.

But though we admit a certain amount of bias, the BBL thinks the struggles were overblown. If the last place team in the conference could take out the Big 12 champs (Arkansas over Oklahoma) while another sub-.500 team could defeat the Pac Ten champs (Florida over Washington), it stands to reason that the SEC wasn’t *that* bad.

More than anything else, the SEC was victimized by a perceived lack of quality precipitated by two...

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