It???s hard to turn down the riches a career in professional basketball will bring. It???s especially hard when your father can???t work due to poor health and your family must survive on your mother???s teaching salary.

After Florida???s run to the national championship last year, forward Corey Brewer had one foot in the NBA Draft, ready to sign a big contract and help his parents financially. His father, Pee Wee, told him to get his foot back on the Gainesville campus and enjoy school. That???s exactly what Corey did.

When Brewer told his teammates he was coming back to school, everyone followed his lead, and that???s why the Gators will have the same five starters tonight as they did in last year???s title game. Corey, the only one of the four junior standouts whose father did not play professional sports, was the one who kept everyone in college.

One of the hardest workers on the Florida roster, Corey has his father to thank for his work ethic. Pee Wee rose every day before dawn to head into the tobacco fields and stayed there under the hot Tennessee sun for hours each day. Often, Corey spent the day working alongside his father, which is why the two are so close today.

Some may think it was a bad decision for Corey to return to school, but like usual, the junior is happy he went with Dad.