Thursday, Alec and I went to see Michigan play the Minnesota Golden Gophers (mens) Basketball team. Minnesota played one of the least inspired games I'd seen since Tubby Smith arrived ... just dreadful. The highlight of the game actually came after the game: as we were leaving, we met Bobby Knight:
Knight was very nice and gracious to Alec given the number of autographs and handshakes he'd already given to a number of fans.
Friday night we caught Cretin-Derham Hall's boys basketball game against Forest Lake. Drew is an assistant coach this year for C-DH and this was a pretty big game as FL had beaten C-DH a month or so ago and was in the conference lead. C-DH trailed most of the game -- sometimes by as much as 12 points -- but came back to tie it up and send it into overtime. The lead in OT see-sawed until, with a few seconds left, C-DH had possession of the ball and was behind (79-80). A C-DH player put up a shot, missed, another C-DH player got the rebound and made a put-back. But the refs ruled that time had expired with the put-back and waved off the points. It was a well-played game and impossible for me to watch the play and the clock ... and the noise level was too high to hear the buzzer.
It was nice to watch a basketball game that was played with intensity and passion.
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