Ohh what a night

Posted by Chris on March 20, 2009
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“This break in the action is provided by Lowe’s…… Lowe’s! Let’s Build Somethingggg Tooogettthhaaaaaaa” – The Great, John Sterling. (I had to do this before I snapped, sorry non-Yankee fans)

All I can say after today is…FML.

Yep. F My Life.

Do I have a heart murmur guys? Hey Dante, can you check on that for me? Por favor?

OK. Maybe I don’t have that……. Much obliged.

Thank god I had another game after ours this evening to get my mind off of the atrocity that was Villanova beating American. As I displayed on these interwebs yesterday…. i just did NOT have a good feeling about this game.

A fast, mobile guard that can hit the trey from anywhere on the court? uhmmm CHECK. Having to witness the plague that is Joe Lunardi at our game laughing to himself at the prospect of Villanova losing in the first round – for those that don’t know, Lunardi = St. Joe’s homer - really ate at me to the extent that I decided to transfer myself away from my $226 seats to the friendly confines of sneaking down to the 100 section to really get a taste of the action during the second half.

ALL I HAVE TO SAY IS THIS. NOVA FANS NEED TO WAKE THE !@##!@# UP. It was an absolute disgrace tonight at the lack of energy within “the center” as the locals like to refer to it. When I moved down to literally the front row – behind Jay Bilas’ head, hey Jay, thanks for the handshake and double tap the the chin tonight – I was appalled at the lack of intensity in the section my “tickets” were in. I mean come on people!!!

This is our chance.

OUR chance to truly make a run in March that hasn’t been seen in over 20 years. Our team needs every fan possible to get on their feet and show the Philadelphia pride that was exuberant (unfortunately for my sake at Giants Stadium this past fall) this past October during the World Series.

Philly. This is your team.

WE are gritty, gutty and full of energy.

WE defy the odds, and look at the 7 footers of UConn, Pitt (well, 300 pounders), Texas, UNC and Oklahoma and say, WE SHALL NOT BACK DOWN.

Yes, as the astute Laner pointed out earlier tonight, the big boys came back and displayed the experience that is necessary for success in the tournament.

HOWEVA,

the University of California Los Angeles is not going to be tired after 30 minutes like American was. If we truly are the special team that a phenomenal amount of the collegiate population claims us to be, the real Wildcats need to show up on Saturday ready for battle from the tip until the final buzzer.  That is all I can tell you. Because tonight we were fortunate/lucky/thank the basketball gods that things broke our way and I did not have to hoist myself off of Bartley Hall on Monday.

I am not going to sit here and say that, “i told you so” with regards to my preview of American (lets be honest, I am far from someone who actually knows what I’m talking about when it comes to these things) but UCLA will be faster, tougher and better coached than American was. Let’s all pray that tonight was a wake up call for the boys, and hopefully we can grow on this win and continue the trek Saturday afternoon.

Oh and for those who somewhat/have no freakin’ idea who we at IBBW are and are within the area…… we plan on throwing a tailgate on Saturday that all are invited to before the game. All we ask is that those whom wish to make an appearnace bring something… shall we say unique? ?

Maybe a layer of ice…… a layer of beer…… another layer of ice….. ???? (god i wish Its Always Sunny was still on TV right now)

In all seriousness…. we will be in the usual spot (the D lot) cooking up the finest Philly meats has to offer before the tip on Saturday. If there is actual real legit interest in the comments we will provide more details tomorrow (I’d love to get a cornhole game going, just my preference though).

Ok. All in all….a fortunate night for ‘Nova Nation. We survive the opening scare that a fair amount of us anticipated… and look to move on. Listen, we at IBBW realize that our team is still extremely young.…and that we will only get better as a program as the next few years happen.

But at the same time, we all see the unique chance that our team has in this tournament.. and the draw that we have enlisted..

…………….it just feels right.

AS the traditional sign-off entails…….

Luego.

9 Comments to Ohh what a night

login77
March 20, 2009

Chris this I agree with. Even when I was at the G,town game people behind me were telling me to sit down. Can you imagine. This is a big problem. The fans who are fortunate enough to get to the center need to get loud.

Also going forward I think this needs to be fixed. The students sit behind the basket at the wachovia center is fine for the ones who are down low. The others are basically in the nose bleed and are ineffective in cheering the team on. If you look at Duke’s home games they are behind the basket and are almost court side creating havoc and cheering loudly. We need to do something about this.

I believe if our students were lower and along the court side they would be much more effective in providing a home court advantage.

login77
March 20, 2009

Also CBS sucks for cutting away from the Nova game with 2 mins left. They were all hoping for an upset but when it was clear that was not going to happen they switched to the Gonzaga game.

Also it’s funny how come no one is critical of the American coach and why his players ran out of gas. Oh no, no one is saying that. Instead they love to dream up the upset and how we survived. Well guess what we won! Trust me if that was Nova everyone would be complaining about Jay. Why are our guys so tired? Please! Nova is very good team and remember this one loss never became two losses. I am sick and tired of hearing about how bad a coach Jay is. Trust me he is very very good coach! Also look at our incoming class and transfers and red shirts who are available for next year. LET’S GO NOVA!

Vinnie
March 20, 2009

Our team is young? We start 3 seniors and 2 juniors and dont play a single frosh. Last year’s team was young. This year’s team is an experienced Sweet 16 team from last year.

Next year’s team could be better, but we’re going to miss Dante and Dwayne. THIS is our year!

Scottie is due for a huge game.

login77
March 20, 2009

That’s right we won this game with out Scottie! Watching Mike and Mike and Hubert Davis is showing us some love. Tomorrow is another day and the boys will be ready! Let’s go Nova! Let’s go Nova!

Jamie
March 20, 2009

Vinnie – just to clarify two things. I completely messed up when it came to saying the “team” is young… I meant to say to the tune that the current high level success of the program is still rather young – as we have our first big man great recruit on the way next year – not necessarily this specific team.

Thanks for the catch though

HerndonforScottie
March 20, 2009

Hey Chris–I was at the game in Section 201. The NOVA kids up there were fantastic the enitre game. The Wachovia “police” tried to get them to sit down…can you imagine? Even still they were cheering loudly the whole game. I was afraid NOVA fans would nor show up, but I think withoutthem the second half might not have happened.

I choose to look at this game as a half full win. Now teams will know not matter what their lead, NOVA will not rest until the game is won by them.
GO NOVA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SportsGal
March 20, 2009

you’re funny Jamie. if only I had that much enthusiasm at 4am. you gotta do something about that student section for saturday….

Mark
March 20, 2009

Jaime, you forget that Jason Frasier was the second ranked Big Man behind Amare Stoudemire in his class…so our second big time big man recruit. I got to give Frasier respect, due to injuries he didn’t play much and people forgot how much he did for this program.

Chris
March 20, 2009

I think all across Villanova, more people are going to the game tomorrow. That place SHOULD be rocking, there really is no excuse if it isn’t.

HfS — I heard the students were pretty wild the whole game, but they were relegated to the upper tank. The problem was (and always has been) the big ticket alumni who sit on their hands close to the court until prompted to actually get up and cheer.

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