Drama at Gampel

I got to witness another UConn embarrassment, er I mean win today. It was much-needed, especially with sibling rivalry stakes at hand! I mean, I've already lost cousin-rivalries with Kathryn and Syracuse lol so it was the least God could do.

I walked in Gampel Pavilion to see...maybe at most half of the people who usually show up. No one in the upper bleachers. And a bus-load of Northeastern students dressed in red.

See, UConn students are so embarrassed to be in the NIT, no one really cares enough to go to the game. Ergo, I got to sit in the lower student section, DIBS! It was a recipe for disaster from the start though; UConn's coming in reeling from a crushing defeat to St. Johns (WTH?), depressed not to be in the NCAA's March Madness, and Northeastern coming in amped to play with the big dogs. The atmosphere was really lax, like a scrimmage. More and more people trickled in as the game went on.

The crowds were getting into it quite a bit...Northeastern's fans are pretty uppity. They chanted a couple of stupid things at us, like Sit Down when the tv timeouts happened, and the "oh-so creative" SAFETY SCHOOL lol to which we responded with "BC REJECTS."

*Authors Note: I mouthed the words, I do not condone the degradation of Northeastern in any way :D *

In short, we went down early, fought back for an eight point halftime lead, lost it and went down about seven, before climbing back in it thanks to a late run to win by two. We missed two chances to ice the game on one-and-one's with less than a minute to go, and NU actually threw up a legit three pointer ftw (it floated there for an eternity) before it clanked the side iron at the buzzer. CRISIS AVERTED. So here's to a continued run in the NIT!