The team who is still around is on the women's side. The Iowa State Cyclones scored 8 unanswered points in the last 50 seconds in their game against Michigan State on Saturday night to advance to the Elite Eight. They play against Stanford tonight--in California. If you haven't looked at a map lately, Iowa is a long way from California and Stanford, well it is in California. We are esentially playing on their "home court" so to speak. They beat us early in the year by 39 points. Doesn't sound good, does it? But unless you have a degree from Stanford I want you cheering for the Cyclones tonight. Who doesn't love an upset?
The girls and I went to many of the women's home basketball games this year. The team only lost one game at home--a nail-biter against Texas. Emma even knows some of the players names by seeing their number. During the "Read Across America" week, a couple of the players came to their classroom and read books.
Here is Emma earlier this year shooting hoops with Allison Lacey (the MVP of Saturday's game who scored 29 points, including the 3 pointer with 21 seconds left to put them in the lead):
This is how we spent many of our Saturday/Sunday afternoons/evenings this winter:
Iowa State has been in the NCAA tournament 10 times since 1996 because of this man, Bill Fennelly:
It is absolutely amazing what he has done at Iowa State, and above all else he is truly a class act. ISU was smart enough to give him a lifetime contract here, and we hope he stays that long or even longer.
The game is on tonight at 8pm CST (which happens to be the same time as Emma's parent/teacher conference). Go Cyclones!!!
1 comment:
Ugh. Basketball. :P
My sports fanatic hubby sure did pick the wrong girl. Can you teach me your sport loving ways oh, wise one? ;)
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