Season Comes to an End

Hi Warrior fans, well our season came to a crashing end yesterday as we just couldn't knock down enough shots to pull out a win. I would first off like to thank all of the fans for the support they gave us throughout the year. While many people did not expect a lot from this team you (the fans) believed in us the entire year and knew this team was capable of great things. I really feel this season was a huge success as not many people understand how difficult it is the make it to the NCAA tournament and just how difficult it is to win games once in the tournament. Our guys have nothing to hang their heads about as they are a class act. They play the game the way it should be played, they respect the opponents, officials, fans of other teams and they represent our University with honor.

On to the rest of the trip. Here is a log for Day 3

Sunday, March 15th

8:45 - Wake up call. Nice to sleep in a little bit more then the past couple of days for our guys.

9:00 - Breakfast again down stairs. Each day the food has been going a bit more down hill as the once great tater tots are now not even worth taking a chance on. Disappointing but what do you expect when its free.

11:00 - Shoot around over at SMSU. We go through Auggie personnel and get our legs stretched out for a bit. Everyone has good energy and focus. Nice to see.

1:00 - Tradition, it is time for Subway. Now we missed out on Subway yesterday because of our game being at noon but the only other time I can remember that we missed out on Subway over the past 5 years was the day of the National Championship games when we would have to eat breakfast for pregame.

2:00 - Everyone back at the hotel for some rest before the game. It is interesting to see what guys do with there down time. Some do homework, other now play a game of cards not sure what game, some take naps and finally some sit on cell phones and talk all day. Top cell phone user on our team might be Mike Mueller. Dude seems to always be on the phone talking to someone. But the top text person on our team is either Ryan Gargaro, Jason Gorman or Curt Robinson. Seems like they are always texting away and they do it fast but not as fast as Quincy Henderson could. Rumor has it back in the day he could text while sitting in class, phone in pocket and text away without ever looking at his phone. Impressive.

2:30 - Wild ending to the Tennessee/Mississippi St. game going on. Both teams are trying to give the game away it seems like. Guy falls out of bounds with the ball for Mississippi St., then Tennessee gives it right back. Crazy game gotta love March Madness

3:15 - Load the bus for SMSU.

5:00 - Tip off

6:45 - Season comes to an end. Tough

8:15 - Everyone is loaded ont he bus after spending some time after game with friends and family. Now time for the long boring trip back home.

9:00 - Stop at Arby's in Worthington. I have been told Arby's has a new sandwich that is just awesome it is the roast beef burger or something like that. So if you are into Arby's you are supposed to try it and add double the beef for a $1 more says Coach Leaf.

9:45 - Back on the bus for the rest of the trip home. A movie was put in but I have no idea what it is and I will be honest I'm not in the mood to figure it out. But anyway it is your basic action movie that we have all seen a million times but with different actors. We have car chases, gun fights, bombs going off, the main character getting shot at by 20 guys at once but still no one can shoot him but he can knock off all of them, the love scene with the girl that the main character hates at first, a villain who demands money and almost get it but in the end our main character pulls off the miracle and gets the villain. Lets just say in this movie the main character can drive his car on to the top of a train, then jump the car into a train car after the villain unhooks the part of the train the car was on. This movie was just stupid.

11:30 - Well after that thriller of a movie we go with the great movie of Madagascar 2. Ben Fischer loves the penguins in this movie for some reason. But any Disney movie is a good movie so this was an enjoyable one to watch given how the day had gone so far.

1:00 - Pulling up to Memorial Hall at WSU. Everyone unloads the bus one last time for the season. Really weird not having our season end out in Springfield, MA. But after going down to the locker room real quick I walk up and walk by the trophy case with the 2 National Championships we have and realize how great of a group our seniors have been. Wow!

Go WARRIORS!!!!