As we were driving north to Kansas yesterday, only an hour or two after we completely changed our weekend plans and decided to drive north, the Mister and I were a bit giddy. It felt like spring break! march madness! youthful frivolity! having a ball in ball year! to be driving almost 300 miles each way for a basketball game.
In truth, we had practical reasons to drive to central Kansas, and wonderful parents/in-laws happy to put us up for the night, but it was still quite a lark to watch the second round of the NCAA Division 2 tournament. The games was a nail biter, with the students from my institution down most of the game, and was tied with 14.9 seconds left. A last second 3 pointer put my students ahead and they move on to the regional finals tomorrow night.
I rather hate tournaments because they make it such that almost all players end their season (and their sporting careers) with a loss, but they are also very exciting.
The Mister and I had actually already seen the regionals (first three rounds) of NCAA Division 2 Basketball (when our West Virginia institution hosted in 2007) but driving to another state with the kids to watch a college basketball game was a new ball year experience.
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