You could be forgiven for not caring much about Florida’s 74-57 win over Auburn on Tuesday night — with Sharife Cooper announced as a scratch just before tipoff thanks to an ankle turned over the weekend, ESPN’s broadcast did everything in its power to talk about anything but the game that was airing.
But the games that Tre Mann and Scottie Lewis had deserved a little more respect than that.
Mann scored 19 points and vacuumed up 13 rebounds for his first career double-double, also dishing three assists and recording two steals, and Lewis showed out as a defender and scorer, contributing 16 points off the bench and tallying five steals in maybe the best night of his sophomore campaign.