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The Back Nine comes at you after a weekend that had a little bit of everything. 10. There were a lot of people poised to Tweet out how the women’s Final Four was blowing away the men’s Final Four after those two amazing women’s games and Baylor’s blowout of Houston Saturday. Then, it happened – one of the most incredible games and endings in sports history. Jalen Suggs opened the bank and set up what we hope will be a tremendous game tonight to close out the basketball season. I’m a big believer that you have to let a game like Gonzaga-UCLA ferment a little before declaring it the...

The Back Nine comes at you after a warm and wonderful weekend here in America’s City, and now we start working on excuses not to go to work Friday when the Madness really begins. 10. Apparently, Florida’s game against Tennessee in the SEC Tournament didn’t mean anything. In fact, I’m not sure that this won’t go down as anything more than a tournament for television inventory. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. So, LSU gets to the final and loses by one point and the Tigers are seeded one spot lower than a Florida team that got a win over Vandy and then didn’t put up much...

The Back Nine comes at you after a weekend where I still somehow managed to avoid long pants. Of course, I also watched a lot of basketball, which is an indoor sport for me. 10. Let’s talk about the elephant in the room and, to be honest with you, I’m looking forward to letting her out. Do the two basketball losses down the stretch mean that we could have an antsy Selection Sunday? Not really. Florida is still a seven seed in Jerry Palm’s bracket and a nine in Joe Lunardi’s. UF is 29th in NET rankings and has eight Quad 1 and Quad 2 wins and only one bad loss. There are teams who need...

The Back Nine comes at you while gearing up for a busy weekend that includes a little bit of everything including the most overwhelming game in any sport – Puppy Bowl XVII. 10. Now that both Signing Days are over and the second one that used to be a national holiday is now relegated to meh status, everyone can look at the rosters of their teams and forget about how they were ranked. That Nick Saban brought in the best class ever is simply opinion and conjecture, but the one thing that strikes fear into the heart of all of college football is that if he thinks they were worthy and he is goin...

The Back Nine comes at you after a weekend of watching balls bouncing all over the place … and that was just during my golf round. Thanks to the Haile’s Angels for inviting me out. 10. When LSU tight end Arik Gilbert announced he was entering the transfer portal, many of us thought Florida would be the perfect fit after the season Kyle Pitts had. But we were dissuaded from that belief because Gilbert was homesick and he is from Marietta, Ga. Of course, Dan Mullen is the king of the portal and Gilbert will be a Gator. Look, Pitts was a unicorn and Gilbert won’t have Kyle Trask throwing h...