Philly-bound!
From 2000-2004, we'd go to Vegas for the first two rounds on the NCAA's. During my first trip, in all of my Vegas-induced idiocy, I said to a friend of mine, " the only way I won't go to Vegas for the tournament is if Albany ever gets in." Well, I'm Philly-bound, as I got a ticket through the school. Woohoo!
Tentative itinerary:
Wednesday night: train to NYC
Thursday: bag work and school and watch games at Scruffy's all day and all night.
Friday AM: hop the train to Philly, arriving in time for the early games.
Friday PM: watch the games somewhere in Philly and then head to Wachovia Center.
Saturday: Pogues in NYC at the Nokia Theatre!
Sunday: Back to Philly for the Albany-UAB matchup!
Now that's a weekend! I love graduate school!
This season has cost me a small fortune, and its been worth every penny!
Good story:
I'm on the uptown campus today, headed towards the library. I look behind me and recognize a kid who I met on Friday waiting for the student tickets. We start talking about the UVM game and about UConn. As soon as he says, "The last thing I wanted was UConn," I look up and Levi walks right by us. Levi and I talk for about a minute, I congratulate him and thank him for all he has done for the school (no, I didn't mention that I have a UAlbany basketball blog). Levi looks at me like "this guys is nuts," thanks me, and moves on. As soon as he walks away, a buddy of mine walks out of the library, sees me, raises his hands and yells, "I'm going to Philly!" We scream bloody murder for a few seconds before my phone rings. Its a friend of mine calling to tell me Will Brown was just on Mike and the Mad Dog. All of this in the span of two minutes. Wow-- Danes fever!
Per USA Today, Albany's odds of winning the Tournament are 1 sextillion:1. I'll put a 5-spot on that and put Vegas out of business. Only Oral Roberts has worse odds, at 5 sextillion:1. Think Northwestern in the Rose Bowl-- and Northwestern lost only because the fix was in!
Also in today's USA Today were the Academic Progress Rates (APR) scores for all basketball programs in this year's tournament. Compare Albany's very respectable score of 957 to UConn (889), BC (917), Cal (921), Florida (903), Iona (913), Marquette (918), OSU (911), GW (941) and UCLA (915), and the school looks very good. Good work, team. The average basketball team score is 927.
Gotta' start looking at my brackets, but I will say this-- as far as seedings and at-large berths are concerned, the selection committee did a ridiculously poor job.
Be on the look out for the Will Brown interview on ESPN News. Great, great interview. Coach gets about 5 minutes. Wow-- that's pretty darn good for a 16-seed!
Tentative itinerary:
Wednesday night: train to NYC
Thursday: bag work and school and watch games at Scruffy's all day and all night.
Friday AM: hop the train to Philly, arriving in time for the early games.
Friday PM: watch the games somewhere in Philly and then head to Wachovia Center.
Saturday: Pogues in NYC at the Nokia Theatre!
Sunday: Back to Philly for the Albany-UAB matchup!
Now that's a weekend! I love graduate school!
This season has cost me a small fortune, and its been worth every penny!
Good story:
I'm on the uptown campus today, headed towards the library. I look behind me and recognize a kid who I met on Friday waiting for the student tickets. We start talking about the UVM game and about UConn. As soon as he says, "The last thing I wanted was UConn," I look up and Levi walks right by us. Levi and I talk for about a minute, I congratulate him and thank him for all he has done for the school (no, I didn't mention that I have a UAlbany basketball blog). Levi looks at me like "this guys is nuts," thanks me, and moves on. As soon as he walks away, a buddy of mine walks out of the library, sees me, raises his hands and yells, "I'm going to Philly!" We scream bloody murder for a few seconds before my phone rings. Its a friend of mine calling to tell me Will Brown was just on Mike and the Mad Dog. All of this in the span of two minutes. Wow-- Danes fever!
Per USA Today, Albany's odds of winning the Tournament are 1 sextillion:1. I'll put a 5-spot on that and put Vegas out of business. Only Oral Roberts has worse odds, at 5 sextillion:1. Think Northwestern in the Rose Bowl-- and Northwestern lost only because the fix was in!
Also in today's USA Today were the Academic Progress Rates (APR) scores for all basketball programs in this year's tournament. Compare Albany's very respectable score of 957 to UConn (889), BC (917), Cal (921), Florida (903), Iona (913), Marquette (918), OSU (911), GW (941) and UCLA (915), and the school looks very good. Good work, team. The average basketball team score is 927.
Gotta' start looking at my brackets, but I will say this-- as far as seedings and at-large berths are concerned, the selection committee did a ridiculously poor job.
Be on the look out for the Will Brown interview on ESPN News. Great, great interview. Coach gets about 5 minutes. Wow-- that's pretty darn good for a 16-seed!
posted by L3K at 4:10 PM
2 Comments:
steve
see you in Philly
maybe we'll be in the row behind you
remember AE fans smoke the ROCK
looking forward to cheering for triple OT in game 2 of the session
I hope so...
Of- fense, thud thud! Of-fense, thud, thud!
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