For his recruits, one season before entering the NBA. For the Atlantic Sun, one game before bowing out of the Big Dance.
Wednesday's 118-110 loss to the Bobcats had the urgency of a pick-up volleyball game in the August sun.
Collingwood's visit to the Cape Town bar the night before England's third Twenty20 World Cup game was revealed by The Sun newspaper on Tuesday.
Unlike other Cinderellas, the Atlantic Sun Conference champion didn't slow down the game or hit a whole lot of three-pointers.
Finnerty never got into a regular season game, though -- as the Baltimore Sun reported -- he was called up from the practice squad and put on the Ravens' active roster in December 2007.
The Owls enter on an 11-game winning streak, and they claimed their first Sun Belt tournament title and eighth NCAA tournament berth in Division I.
The consultants he has hired to create his wildlife park were responsible for South Africa's Pilanesberg National Park, the game reserve attached to the resort and gambling complex of Sun City.
England play a warm-up game against local side Platinum Stars at the Moruleng Stadium near Sun City on Monday.
In 15 years Vos has expanded to offer eight rail itineraries, including a nine-day "golf safari" combining golf, wild-game viewing and a visit to the resort and casino at Sun City.
Football is not basketball, and on no day will the winner of the MAC or Sun Belt conference knock off Auburn or Ohio State in a first-round game.
There was little drama to the proceedings after Florida failed to pass a bill that would have helped pay for renovations to Sun Life Stadium, something the league hinted would be a prerequisite for the Miami Dolphins to host the game.
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All 80 game tables and 850 slot machines form a kind of orbit around a multi-story glass sun by American artist Dale Chihuly, around which swarm scantily-clad resort guests, crisply-attired croupiers and more than a few celebrities (rumoured recent sightings include Kim Kardashian and Justin Bieber).
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