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Florida's Chandler Parsons , UCSB's Orlando Johnson take different paths, become leaders

About this time three years ago, Chandler Parsons and Orlando Johnson made decisions that changed their basketball careers.Parsons sat in Florida coach Billy Donovan's office and chose to overhaul his attitude. On the opposite coast, Johnson left rebuilding Loyola Marymount for less-established UC Santa Barbara.They have since become two of the most versatile players in college basketball , and have their teams in the NCAA tournament for the second consecutive season.One of them will get their first win Thursday night when the Gators (26-7), the No. 2 seed in the Southeast region, play the 15th-seeded Gauchos (18-13).Parsons and Johnson took totally different paths to get to this point.Parsons followed Corey Brewer, Al Horford and Joakim Noah at Florida, and expected to get to the Final Four every season. But the 6-foot-9 senior from nearby Orlando refused to buy into Donovan's defense-first philosophy and spent most of his time thinking about NBA stardom.Donovan offered Parsons a wake...

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