Go Boilers & Jacks!
Matt posted this tonight elsewhere on the interwebs...
I'm confident that the wins the same weekend are a first, since this is SDSU's* first year of post-season Division I eligibility.
We just went out to dinner to celebrate (leftover pizza can wait until tomorrow!). Depite highs in the 80s here today, I wore my SDSU sweatshirt. I figure I'm one of very few South Dakota State grads living in Austin, so I had to represent!
It's been a while since I've been this proud to call myself a Jackrabbit. :) The score says it all tonight: 90 to 55. I just hope these talented women do half as well on Tuesday night against Baylor or UTSA. (And, even if not, it's still been a great season.)
Matt & I figured out that our two teams could face each other in the Final Four. Not that I think it's likely, but that would sure be interesting!
The only bad thing about today was the coverage on ESPN2. We were in the "whip-around" coverage area, meaning we were supposed to get a little bit of several games. Matt & I figure there were, at most, 15 seconds of live coverage of SDSU (which, if I recall correctly, was actually in the pre-game warmups). At one point they said they'd cover SDSU after a break, but never did. Dreadful" is our word for that. I'm sure the score played into it, but if you advertise coverage, show something, please.
I heard from several people who did get the entire game (people living in South Dakota) who were ashamed at the number of times the announcers got the school name / state name incorrect. *sigh* When you grow up as just one of 700,000 residents of a state (that has a name quite similar to two other states), you ought to becoeme used to that kind of mistake- but somehow, it's still sad.. Hopefully Tuesday's coverage will be better.
*And by SDSU, I mean South Dakota State, not San Diego State. I get that there can't be two SDSU's on ESPN's crawl, but I wish they'd remember that "South Dakota State" means SDSU while "South Dakota" means USD, at the very least.
edit Monday morning... Not the best picture of me ever, but this was a nice moment to capture:
Listening to SDSU's game online. Could the Boilers and Jacks win tourney games in the same weekend? I doubt they ever have before.
I'm confident that the wins the same weekend are a first, since this is SDSU's* first year of post-season Division I eligibility.
We just went out to dinner to celebrate (leftover pizza can wait until tomorrow!). Depite highs in the 80s here today, I wore my SDSU sweatshirt. I figure I'm one of very few South Dakota State grads living in Austin, so I had to represent!
It's been a while since I've been this proud to call myself a Jackrabbit. :) The score says it all tonight: 90 to 55. I just hope these talented women do half as well on Tuesday night against Baylor or UTSA. (And, even if not, it's still been a great season.)
Matt & I figured out that our two teams could face each other in the Final Four. Not that I think it's likely, but that would sure be interesting!
The only bad thing about today was the coverage on ESPN2. We were in the "whip-around" coverage area, meaning we were supposed to get a little bit of several games. Matt & I figure there were, at most, 15 seconds of live coverage of SDSU (which, if I recall correctly, was actually in the pre-game warmups). At one point they said they'd cover SDSU after a break, but never did. Dreadful" is our word for that. I'm sure the score played into it, but if you advertise coverage, show something, please.
I heard from several people who did get the entire game (people living in South Dakota) who were ashamed at the number of times the announcers got the school name / state name incorrect. *sigh* When you grow up as just one of 700,000 residents of a state (that has a name quite similar to two other states), you ought to becoeme used to that kind of mistake- but somehow, it's still sad.. Hopefully Tuesday's coverage will be better.
*And by SDSU, I mean South Dakota State, not San Diego State. I get that there can't be two SDSU's on ESPN's crawl, but I wish they'd remember that "South Dakota State" means SDSU while "South Dakota" means USD, at the very least.
edit Monday morning... Not the best picture of me ever, but this was a nice moment to capture:
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