Day 1 - Warriors Head to Marshall

Hey Warrior fans, hope everyone is getting ready for the big weekend and has plans on making it out to Marshall. It should be a great tournament and our guys are looking forward to the noon game on Saturday. Well as I stated the other day I have been keeping a log again of our adventure out here and what we have been up to so far. Here we go, again.

Thursday - March 12th

12:30 - Everyone is loaded on the bus and ready to go. We have 24 people going on the trip and we have a 48 passenger bus so everyone should have two seats for themselves to stretch out but for some reason Joel Armstong and Jordan Fischer are sharing a seat, freshman are funny sometimes. After a couple of minutes Jordan does get his own seat up near the front of the bus.

12:45 - Find out the Gophers are now only up 50-49 against Northwestern. We are getting updates from a phone, technology is great!

12:50 - Time for the first movie of the trip. "Role Models" This movie was one I was looking forward to watching but it was a disappointment. I would not recommend this to any family to sit down and watch together. Definitely has some language and other items that are for adults only, but our guys like these types of comedies as most college students do.

1:10 - Find out the Gophers pulled out the win. Great to hear as they will be on now in the morning and we can watch them after our practice. Only bad news is they are playing a Michigan St. team that has dominated them, twice.

2:30 - Out in the middle in the great flat lands of Minnesota. I think we are around Jackson so we have about two hours left on our trip. The first movie is coming to an end and we are looking at our next movie, "Resurrecting the Champ."

4:15 - Movie is over we are about 30 minutes out. The movie was based on a true story when a struggling report run into a man he thinks is a former boxing champion and writes a story about the man in hopes of getting his career off the ground. This movie was okay but not a must see. I actually remember hearing about this on ESPN a few years back so it is kind of weird a movie was written so fast about it but if you like reading columnist from newspapers you would find this story interesting.

4:16 - Coach Gove is putting in one of the box sets of the series "Cheers" and attempting to find one of the shows he really likes, only problem he can't remember which one it is. We end up starting the episode where Frasier ends up out a window on the top story of the Cheers building threatening to jump because Lilith his wife is leaving him to go live under ground with her new boy friend.

4:30 - We get to Marshall and head over to Burger King for a quick bite to eat for our guys. "Cheers" episode is just getting to the good part too.

5:10 - Done with our quick little snack we check into our hotel. Haven't been in this hotel in a while but last time we were hear they had a basketball hoop in the swimming pool which is always fun.

6:00 - Load the bus and head over to SMSU for a shoot around and to stretch the legs after the long ride. We don't get to practice in the main gym as they have high school games going on but we use the gym where they play volleyball in. Nice little gym and set up for volleyball, a lot like our Talbot gym in size but they have nice scoreboards, jumbo-tron, perfect set up for volleyball. Very nice.

7:30 - We complete our shooting and get ready to load back on the bus. Lots of people at the high school games, SMSU needs a bigger parking lot as a ton of cars are parked well down the street.

8:00 - Team heads over to Applebee's for dinner, which is right next to us. Applebee's has the 2 for $20 deal going on right now so many of our guys go with that. You get to entrees and an appetizer for $20 very good deal actually as the entrees are at least a $1.50 less and basically you are getting a free appetizer on top of that.

9:30 - Head back to the hotel and get ready for bed. We will be getting everyone up early as we must get used to this because of the time of our game so guys will be up at 6:30. So lights out is 10:30.

Midnight - I know I should be sleeping like our guys but couldn't as UConn and Syracuse just went through one crazy game and it is not over yet! Just starting the 5th overtime.

12:09 A.M. - Syracuse pulls away in the 6th overtime, 127-117. I'm sure not many of you watched it live but you will see replays of it on ESPN as they show highlights and talk about it for the next 24 hours straight and actually make people sick of hearing about it in the end. ESPN likes to go overboard with great games too much for my liking.

12:20 - Off to bed. Wake up is going to come fast at 6:30.

Check back later for more on our trip.