Davante and Miami

[tower912]

I wonder if, while watching the Miami/Illini game last night, Davante was looking at the Miami bigs and saying "finally!   Real bigs.   Not some anorexic flopper who jumps on my back, pushes me, hacks me but because he is so fragile I can't get a call.    Finally, a big that I can have a real rasslin match with, one who won't fall back flailing his arms theatrically when I post up.   Chris!   We are gonna have some fun!"

[T-Bone]

Davante stacks up nicely against Johnson.  
http://statsheet.com/mcb/players/compare?add=2-reggie-johnson&p1=davante-gardner

Little short on the rebound side, but Johnson doesn't have nearly the quickness of Gardner.  

Kadji and Gamble could give him some trouble, but I think Chris also matches up nice against those guys.

[downtown85]

Both sides will likely try their "jumbo package" on each other. (For MU it's Otule and Gardner and for Miami it's Kadji and Johnson.)

[GOO]

Gardner may get a few open 8 to 10 footers.