March Madness Volume 1

Thursday night I went to the NCAA tournament games at the Coliseum. My brother Sam went with me because for some reason we couldn't find a babysitter to come stay until 1:00 in the morning! :) Steve decided to stay home with the boy and he spent the evening watching the games and playing the wii with some friends from church.
I started the evening off right with a double dip of cookies and cream in a waffle cone followed by a large mountain dew. Yes, the diet went out the window. Sam nicely shared his nachos and cheese with me later and I knew I was doomed.
The first game was very interesting. Marquette and Michigan State were playing. Marquette did not score for the first nine and a half minutes of the game. When they finally did score, everyone cheered. I felt kind of bad for them. Then one of the Michigan State players dislocated his elbow. He wasn't too far away from where we were sitting. It kind of made me sick to my stomach to see him squirming on the floor and screaming in pain. They covered his arm with a towel and then escorted him off the court to a round of applause.
The best part of the evening was whenever they would show the score to the Duke/VCU game. If Duke was winning, everyone would boo. If VCU was ahead everyone would cheer. They stopped updating the score when there was 15 seconds left. They guys behind me were desperately trying to get the play by play on their cell phones. I finally called Steve and he told me there was 1.8 seconds left and Duke, down by two, had called time out. I told the guys behind me and they got excited. "She's got it live!" they kept saying. Steve gave me the play by play down to "They missed their shot. Game over!" I was so excited. By this time the mountain dew had kicked in and I was jumping up and down. When they finally announced the score over the loud speaker the crowd erupted in one great cheer! It was incredible.
Then Carolina came out to play. They played great the first half, but seemed to lose some of their intensity the second half. This was proved by the fact that EKU got within four points. Not to worry though, the Tarheels finally stepped it up and ended up winning the game convincingly. There was a lady from EKU that kind of looked like a body builder. She screamed and screamed at the referees the entire game. She kept telling them to get in the game. She went through a multiple amount of water bottles. I was surprised she could even talk at the end. Then there were the guys that were painted burgundy with the cut out basketballs on their heads. All in all, there were several amusing people to watch near us.
After a great night, I came home wired from the caffeine. I stayed up til 2:30 working on notes for school on how to do your laundry. Was it worth it? I would definitely say yes.