Greetings from Bridgestone Arena, where I’m hunkered down in the media room contemplating a second serving of popcorn. It’s been an exciting day of action thus far, with Mississippi State outlasting Florida in overtime in the first game and Tennessee cruising past Ole Miss in the second. Tomorrow, the Bulldogs will face No. 1 seed Alabama and the Vols No. 4 seed Missouri.
We’ve got a little time before the evening session starts, so I thought I’d check in with a few notes, some basketball related and some not.
— The crowd has been lively all day, but the best group of fans were behind Mississippi State’s bench wearing “Jans the Man” t-shirts in support of Bulldogs’ coach Chris Jans.