SEC links for Monday:
- In the Knoxville News-Sentiel, Mike Griffith writes that freshman and Kentucky native Scotty Hopson is starting to raise Bruce Pearl’s hopes.
- Also in the News-Sentinel, Dan Fleser writes on the Tennessee Lady Vols’ overtime win over Stanford.
- News-Sentinel columnist John Adams writes that freshman Shekinna Stricklen is catching on fast for the Lady Vols.
- In the Gainesville Sun, Kevin Brockway writes that Florida freshman Kenny Kadji is also starting to catch on.
- In the Tuscaloosa News, columnist Cecil Hurt writes that Bama bowl opponent Utah is not an extension of Florida.
- Randy Kennedy writes in the Mobile Press-Register that Gene Chizik can still make an early splash at Auburn.
- Derek Oxford reports of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette on Missouri’s upset of Arkansas in women’s hoops.
- Rob Keys of the NW Arkansas Times reads the cards around the SEC.
- In The Adovcate, Joseph Schiefelbein reports that LSU knows its safeties will play a key role against Georgia Tech option offense in the Chic-fil-A Bowl.
- In the AJC, Georgia quarterback Matt Stafford might stop and think before going pro considering that the Lions are 0-15.
