Standing Room Only

To get right into the action, we were on the road at UNC Asheville in the 2nd half and were down 8 with minutes to go. To describe the situation, it was cold, we were on the road and Coach Richey wasn’t at the game. The old CSU would have crumbled in this situation, but this is the new CSU. In this game we battled back and took the lead and then eventually won in overtime.
This was the closest I have come to my time at CSU to getting a technical foul. If you’re thinking, “did he get in the game?” No, not at all. But we had a player dive on a loose ball in front of our bench and call a timeout. I rushed out to the court and bumped into an Asheville player. At that time the ref blew his whistle and made the international sign for a T. At this point my heart sank. But then I realized he was giving the Asheville player a technical, because he had been complaining about a no call.

The good news in that we had a ten game home winning streak stretching back to last year. The Bad news is that we lost to Coastal Carolina at home. But it’s still not all that bad considering we are still in the hunt for a home playoff game. Two other positives were 1. If you were at the game you would have seen the Buc Dome was out of control and was standing room only. 2. You would know that we didn’t play our best game and we still had a chance to win at the end of the game.

Finally, I take pride in our bench and being loud during the games and standing up to cheer. The past few games I have been meaning to keep a count of how many times I get up and down during a game. Unfortunately I get caught up in the game and forget to count once the game gets going. For the Coastal game I employed the help of Stan to help me count. We still forgot but he kept me on track from halftime and on. I got up and down 49 times in the 2nd half. Considering I don’t have stats on anyone else getting up and down during a game. I am proclaiming myself number one in the country in cheering chair squats.I will recap our latest road trip against Winthrop and Presbyterian in the next blog.

Sweeney