It’s a five-hour drive from Lubbock to Dallas — and one can rest assured that thousands of Texas Tech fans made that drive, or one from somewhere deep in the heart of Texas, to see Saturday night’s game between the Florida Gators and their Red Raiders in the second round of the 2018 NCAA Tournament (~8:40 p.m. Eastern, TNT or March Madness Live or Hulu or CBS All-Access or Fubo — you have options, in other words).
Most Florida fans probably didn’t make that same trip, what with the Gators playing in yet another NCAA Tournament and not the program’s second in a decade and playing somewhere other than their home state a year after getting to bus to Orlando for games and having been one of the nation’s favorite upset picks prior to their first-round rout of St.