Best 3 Days of Basketball

Well the best three straight days of college basketball just went by (with the exception of last year's ACC tournament). Tuesday was #1 Illinois vs #19 Wisconsin... normally I wouldn't care (not my conference), but I got good friends loyal to each school, and it was a wild and very close game.

The next night was a masterpiece... Maryland taking down #2 duke. For those who don't know, MDer's HATE duke with a passion. Beating them at their house is what we LOVE. I can't say I expected it, but the Terps love to upset (reference MD beating FSU in football last season). Beating duke was a moment of pure joy in our otherwise lackluster season. I heard there was a game watch set up at Cole Field House back on MD campus, I can only imagine how crazy that was.

So as if that game couldn't be matched, the next night #21 GA Tech hosts #5 Wake Forest, and me and some friends attended. As with the MD-duke game, my expectations for a Tech win were not high, considering we had just lost 3 ACC games in a row, even to VA Tech. But somehow Tech got off to a running start.. the score was 20-5 Tech, then 34-17 Tech. It was unbelievable. Of course Wake came back like any top 5 team should, and ended up sending it to OT. By the way, the score at this point is 98-98 and with all the fouls it has easily been 2.5 hours by now. Yada yada yada, Tech wins 102-101 even in the face of ridiculously bad calls by the refs.. kids storm the court, etc. It was an emotional game... one of the best I've been to.

So now we have Tech playing Maryland at Maryland this sunday at 5:30. This should be a great game. I am of course rooting for MARYLAND, and want vengeance for Tech wupping MD in football. GO TERPS.