Embedded With the Gators: Good morning!
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 | Men's Basketball, Football, Chris Harry
PHOENIX -- Good morning.
It's early Wednesday and I'm bopping around the team hotel again with little to no sign of the players or coaches. Here's a shot (left) from the sixth floor looking down into the atrium of the Hilton Suites. Pretty nice hotel, but not a lot of activity or nightlife in the surrounding area.
That's fine with Billy Donovan.
Speaking of the head coach, I tweeted the below photo yesterday, but figured it was worthy of a blog post, too. Assistant coach John Pelphrey called this mess to my attention.
“That's what he puts in his coffee,” Pelphrey said, pointing to the breakfast table mess that Billy D left behind. “Tweet that!”
OK.
That's it, bottom left.
Eight creams and five Sweet & Lows.
Does he put that into his coffee or vise versa?
[Note: Whatever. Obviously, the AM jolt of caffiene works. The guy is 420-177 all-time and 27-9 in the NCAA Tournament]
The Gators, en masse, are due up for taping at 9:15 a.m., with breakfast at 10.
The team will have a full-blown practice at 10:30 at Arizona State's arena, courtesy of Sun Devils coach and Donovan good friend Herb Sendek, then head from Wells Fargo Center in Tempe to the USAirways Center downtown for the open practice at Thursday's NCAA site, from 1-1:50 p.m., followed by player and coach media interviews.
In case you missed it, the team had a great practice Tuesday at ASU. Here's some video from it, courtesy of GatorVision's Jon Rubin.
Key day today, so follow me on Twitter @GatorZoneChris for some randem tweet pics and such.
