Selection Show and First Practice
Monday was the selection show. I feel like it would have
been slightly more dramatic if we didn’t know that we were in the tournament,
but it was still interesting waiting to find out who we were going to play.
Just like last year, a ton of administrative people came out
(the AD, our compliance director, the whole academic advising department, etc.)
to see where we would end up and our whole team sat in front of a monitor that
had the show running.
Unlike last year though, they revealed all of the teams in
the beginning of the show, so we found out right away that we are heading to
Morgantown, West Virginia. After we got done cheering it sunk in a bit that we
were heading back to the same place to play the same team that we played last
year. If we beat West Virginia, we get to head down to Maryland, which will be
our third top 10 opponent of the season, and definitely an incredible
experience, but first we have to focus on West Virginia.
Tuesday, we had our first practice after the 290-minute plus
tournament weekend. People went out yesterday and jogged and stretched for
recovery, the legs were a little bit heavy. To compensate, we had a relatively
light practice. We were told after practice that we were going to be recognized
at the basketball game, but some of the older guys on the team talked to coach
and convinced him to hold off on that.
We’ve been out of town for three days in three out of the
past four weeks, so everybody’s got more than a bit of work and sleep to catch
up on. Other than that, we’re just getting packed and prepared to head out to
WVU on Wednesday.
-Andy
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