It's hard to make jokes about something like this, so instead I'll just admit how incredibly impressive it is: Chris Lofton was diagnosed with testicular cancer in the offseason last year. The reason you're just hearing about this? Lofton kept it private, beat the cancer, and then played his entire senior season with nary a mention of the disease.

Can I get a ruling from the toughness judges? Yep. That's a 10. Thought so.

What might be even more suprising, as Thirty Five Seconds notes, is that no one -- not Bruce Pearl, not nefarious message board posters -- decided to trot this out early in the season as Lofton struggled to get back to 100 percent. That a secret like this can be effectively kept not only restores my faith in doctor-patient confidentiality laws, it reassures me that no one reading this will ever find out about my crippling bout with jaundice.

I've said too much.

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