Wiedmer: Don’t forget the tragedy that followed the last Super Bowl in Atlanta
Remember the names of the two men who died that night: Richard Lollar and Jacinth Baker.

Remember the names of the two men who died that night: Richard Lollar and Jacinth Baker.

Within the Southeastern Conference men's basketball standings, 14 teams headed into Tuesday night's games residing in three separate but far from equally important groups as they pertain to potential NCAA tournament invitations.

Like most if not all of its Southeastern Conference basketball brethren, the University of Kentucky typically hosts a media opportunity to interview its coach and players on the day before its games.

The hour was growing late inside the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's Maclellan Gym that humid June night in 2007.

The Vols are better than good. They have now won 14 straight games on one of the tougher schedules in the nation.

These are the moments from which No. 1 seeds are made.

It was getting close to 2:30 on Tuesday afternoon, and in a few minutes Dr. Steve Highlander would begin delivering a very emotional eulogy regarding the extraordinary life of wrestling icon John Farr.

Beaming from ear to ear, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga athletic director Mark Wharton stood in a corner of McKenzie Arena last Thursday during halftime of the Mocs' narrow basketball win over Mercer.

In response to violence, Kingston Frazier followed a path that surely would have made the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. proud.

The highly respectable crowd of 4,229 had long ago left McKenzie Arena to navigate another soggy Saturday night in the Scenic City.
