Beverley comments
USC players responded to Arkansas guard Patrick Beverley saying he thought the Razorbacks would ``make it to the Sweet 16 easy.''
``I heard about it,'' Nick Young said. ``It's just mind games. He's trying to start a feud. We're just going to go out there and play.''
Beverley leads Arkansas in scoring at 13.8 points per game.
Gabe Pruitt downplayed Beverley's comments but said, ``It's going to be lingering around'' during the game.
Matthew Kredell broke into the Daily News in 1998, working part time
at the paper while going to USC. The basketball team’s Elite Eight
run in 2000-01 was USC’s athletic highlight in his time at the
school, when the football team was stuck in the Paul Hackett-era.
After graduating in 2001, he started writing for the Daily News full
time. He’s in his second year covering USC, which coincides with the
rise of the program. He’ll take credit for the success, though Tim
Floyd may have more to do with it. A third-generation Los Angelean,
he grew up reading the Daily News while at El Camino Real High School
in Woodland Hills.