Not sure I can find the best adjective to describe the mentality of the team but the one that most comes to mind is just plain scared. I don't see how you compete all your life growing up and be good enough to find your way onto a college basketball team and be so fragile. The funny thing is that it happened in one game, the first conference game of the season against Florida. Went into that game supremely over confident and that took the huge swing to the other end of the spectrum to folding like a house of cards when it's on the line.
Psyche
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I'm not quite sure "scared" is the right word (perhaps "unconfident"?), but other than that you nailed it. Through most of the non-conference schedule they pushed people around. They believed they deserved to win, and they played like it. Then UF came to town. We thought we could win just by showing up, and we got smacked. After that, they just never had the confidence or the belief to win big. They'll get there, but they'll have to grow up a little bit to do it.
