Here's a Curry Kirkpatrick SI article which detailed the South Carolina basketball juggernaut of the early 1970's. Classic quote from Ribock.
"We have our own animals," says South Carolina's Riker. "How about Ribock? He's insane."
The son of a retired Army mess sergeant and a onetime altar boy, Ribock has become the league's reigning butcher due largely to the efforts of Roche and Owens. On first meeting the New Yorkers as freshmen, Ribock, a Georgia native, said, "You know what I like to do when I go home? I like to sit in front of my TV with a big gallon of water and drink it all down." The Dead End sophisticates, Roche and Owens, went wild. They said to each other "Instant Savage" and proceeded to, in their words, "psych Ribock up for blasting guys" by telling him how tough his opponents were supposed to be.
https://www.si.com/vault/1971/01/04/...anybodys-block