Mar 15 2008
March Madness is Incredible (Off Topic)
This post has nothing to do with Website Help… but my University is going dancing this year, and I’d like to brag a bit!
This is the best time of year if you are a sports fan. I wait for these few weeks every year so that I can watch basketball until my head hurts. Some of these games involve schools I have never heard of, but they are still great. The best part of this year is that my Alma mater is going dancing! American University is going to their first NCAA tournament, and unless you are familiar with the school, you probably don’t realize how much this means to everybody in DC. During my 4 years in AU, we made it to the Patriot league finals 2 times, only to lose in the last few seconds each time. There was plenty of heartbreak and misery… lots of drinking away the pain. Well, yesterday AU finally sealed the deal, and this team should be proud of themselves for not letting this game slip away in the last few minutes.
Every year there is a school like American who punches their NCAA ticket for the first time, and everytime I see a school storm the court I get excited. Is there any better moment in sports then the infamous “court storming”? It is one of the few moments in sports that you know is coming, but still makes you smile each time.
This morning I woke up to watch another small school from my hometown make the big dance. University of Maryland- Baltimore County will also be dancing for the first time in their schools history. These sort of NCAA births put a school on the map. If teams such as Holy Cross, Winthrop, George Mason, IUPUI had never made the tourney, would you know of them? This publicity goes a long way for smaller schools, and it will be exciting to see what such a win does American University, down the road with recruiting of new athletes and students. Thanks to thank win yesterday, maybe my degree is worth slightly more than it was last week?
So as you watch these small schools get completly destroyed next week against Memphis, UCLA, UNC, etc… just remember how much it means for these undersized, slightly underskilled kids just to be on the same court as those teams on national television. Maybe even consider putting AU through to the second round… anything is possible.
Video of AU students storming the court!
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