The highlight of our week (okay, let's be serious, our year), was Wednesday night. What do you mean you don't know what's so important about Wednesday night? Clearly you weren't watching ESPN2 (or ESPN Classic or ESPN U, as the case may be). It's rivalry week! Which means the Xavier Muskies were playing our beloved Flyers.
Since this rivalry goes back to 1920 (and for those of you wondering, the Flyers won that game), you could say it's an intense match up. Add to the fact that we haven't beat Xavier at all in the past three years -- and we haven't beat them at XU since 1981 -- and well, we really wanted to win.
For those of you who've never been to our Arena, it seats 13,435, and it gets really, really loud. Whether fans are sitting in the nosebleeds or courtside, they cheer, clap, boo and stand up. And to make things even more fun, each seat was adorned a white towel for our waving pleasure.
As the Flyers were announced, every single person (really, we counted) in the Arena was on their feet and waving their white towels in the air. It was amazing to see everyone participating, and it also looked really cool on TV (yeah, we DVR'ed the game and watched it later...we're dedicated fans). Eight seconds into the game, Warren (our point guard who is insanely fast but also turnover-prone) drove to the basket for two points. Great way to start the game.
After that, the Flyers never looked back - we led the rest of the game. Of course, there were down moments. The officiating was the worst (well, at least one of the worst) we have ever seen. We definitely won the game in spite of the calls. Our "favorite" was when the refs weren't sure who was supposed to inbound the call, went to the video feed, then called a foul on us from the previous play. WHAT?! The boo'ing rocked the stadium, and even the commentators agreed it was a terrible call. Our other point guard, Lowery, also went down on a play and is now out for the season. The stadium held its collective breath as a stretcher was eventually wheeled on to the court, but Lowery eventually hopped off court on his own.
We were completely hoarse after the game, and also weren't able to fall asleep until after midnight. And to top it off, we also beat Richmond on Saturday, bringing our record to 24-3. Now we just have to keep it up and stay healthy for the next month!
In other, less exciting, news: we had a new water softener installed this week (your water hardness level should be a 1; ours was a 22) and had our carpet cleaned.
Current gas price: $1.91/gallon.
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