Ncaa Tournament: ; Conditioning Torture Fuels Blazers' 'Hell'

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ST. LOUIS - A few days in coach Mike Anderson's grueling conditioning program, and Mo Finley wondered if basketball at Alabama-Birmingham was really worth this kind of pain.

Drills with a water-filled ball, a shapeless blob that's impossible to grip or grab. Full-speed sessions with a heavy medicine ball. And then there were those torturous suicide sprints.

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Ncaa Tournament: ; Conditioning Torture Fuels Blazers' 'Hell'

Instead of going baseline to baseline, Anderson pushed the bleachers back and had his players sprint from one gym wall to the other, concrete to concrete. Not just once or twice, either. They ran dozens of those g...

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