Super Bowl Update

Saw a pretty good basketball game tonight in Troy, as the Trojans beat East Tennessee State 79-71. You can read my game story HERE. (above, that's Daronte Clark, Alan Jones and Emil Jones)

ETSU whooped Troy 10 days ago, but Will Weathers didn't play. This time, I thought Don Maestri had an excellent game plan and his players executed it to perfection. Sounds like he's got a good group of guys that believe in each other. That doesn't guarantee wins, but anyone who watches this team will know that they gave it their all.

Justin Wright scored 15 - he's dealing with some back pain. Weathers had 14 and 7 assists. The team's most versatile player may be Emil Jones, who is playing the 3 and 4 positions with Steven Cunningham still injured. Jones hit a few FT-line jumpers, a three and got some rebounds and put-backs. He's only 6-foot-3 and about 190. Wright is very versatile as well, and bigger than Jones, but the back problems limit him.

If Troy's main 3-point shooters - R.J. Scott, Alan Jones and Daronte Clark - had been especially on, then the score would have been worse. Tim Owens isn't a big scoring threat, but did get 9, 5 of which came from the free throw line, and played solid defense.

ETSU is a pretty good team - longer and bigger than Troy - but Troy outcoached and outplayed the Bucs tonight. Saturday night at 7 p.m. - while I'll be writing from Jonesboro - you need to be at Trojan Arena to see Troy play Miami-Ohio.

Miami may be the best team to come to Trojan Arena this year. I got home tonight and turned on ESPN, and it was showing highlights of Miami vs. Cincinnati - a close loss, and Miami barely lost to highly-ranked Xavier.

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Football-wise, and yes, there's still some stuff to write about. HERE is a story on redshirt freshmen right tackle Terrence Jones.

Jones has been pretty solid this year. The only sacks I can remember him giving up were two against FIU. He and Zach Johnson look to be four-year starters on the offensive line.