Midnight Madness
Karen, Dan and I arrived at the Convocation Center at 9 PM, for doors at 10:30, in anticipation of a mob scene of people all trying to be within the first 300 to get a T-Shirt. There was one person besides us until 9:20, and only nine people were on line at that point.
We got courtside, center-court, Spike-Lee quality seats, but it was a somewhat hollow victory when the lower half of one side of the Convo wasn't even filled. It pains me to say this, but it was times like last night that I wish I was at a real rah-rah-ray-ray school like Maryland or Duke.
But that's not to say we didn't have a good time last night. I got more free stuff than I could carry with one hand, great views of the three-point contest, slam dunk competition, Dukettes' performance, and the mens' and womens' scrimages. The men, naturally, hot-dogged it up the entire eight minutes, but there were actually some pretty cool plays (and some horrible misses).
The final, anti-climatic event of the evening was the drawing of a name to shoot for a year's worth of tuition. We knew as soon as the girl who won stood up that she had no chance; the game was to hit a layup, foul shot, three point shot, and a halfcourt shot within 24 seconds. She couldn't even reach the basket from the foul line. So sad.
Lady Dukes' home opener is vs. Tulane on November 22, and the first Men's game I can make is December 7 vs. La Salle.
October 12, 2002 - 09:38 AM