Mike White was late. Long after his players had finished doing interviews and Kentucky coach John Calipari had left, White remained absent.
He finally arrived for his postgame press conference disheveled, with a gray coat covering his gray Florida basketball T-shirt and his usually neatly spiked hair uncoifed. He had been wearing a white button-down shirt and a bright orange tie, and his hair had been rigid during the game. What happened?
“The guys got me,” he explained. “Got me good. Ice-cold water.”
White said the splashing in the locker room was to celebrate his birthday, but it very well could’ve been to celebrate the end of the regular season.