Darrin Horn's rebuilding season got off to a 1-0 conference start last Saturday after a thunderous comeback upset possibly the league's best team, Vanderbilt. Should we expect the young team to grab some momentum and become a player in the race for the SEC title?
The SEC in basketball is comparable to the ACC in football this season, awful. Much to the Gamecocks' detriment, all of the good teams are in the Eastern Division. Four or five victories over western opponents and two or three wins versus the east could lead to an 8-8 record, an excellent result with this much youth.
To do this the amazing disappearing/reappearing man, Sam Muldrow, will have to play with the same passion and intensity that he showed against Vandy. How does a player put up the second triple double in the program's history (with blocked shots for pete's sake) and just a week before go invisible versus BC? It has to be comfort. Muldrow can be a dominating player, but appears to go to sleep in random games. Most of his big games versus good teams are against SEC competition, not quality non-conference ones. This has to be that Muldrow is comfortable knowing he can bang with those guys. Sam does like to shoot the three ball a little too much, but often gets the Bill Vernau (don't shoot, don't shoot, great shot!) response from the crowd. Bruce Ellington made the 6 threes, but Sam Muldrow created the intensity the team needed to know they could win. This is huge for such a youthful team. Which Sam will show at Bama tonight?
