On Twitter just a minute ago: Are you on the Gael bandwagon yet? This could be a Davidson like run to the Elite Eight if they win here. How people talk.
Showing posts with label elite eight. Show all posts
Showing posts with label elite eight. Show all posts
3.20.2010
3.16.2010
Two years ago now
The Post and Courier in a story on Wofford: Davidson’s run to the Elite Eight in 2008 earned the SoCon an extra $4.5 million.
3.04.2010
1.23.2010
More No. 30
Claire points out something I somehow missed last month. From Stephen’s GQ diary:
From yesterday: In other news, I just bought a dog. It’s a black Yorkie poo.
Our game against Detroit marked the first time I was back in the city since Davidson’s NCAA tournament run in 2008, which ended in the Elite Eight at Ford Field. A lot of the fans at the game remembered when we played Wisconsin and Kansas that year to end our magical story of a small D-1 school getting so close to the Final Four. I thought about pulling out the same shoes I wore during that tournament and wearing them during the Pistons game, even though they didn't match at all.
From yesterday: In other news, I just bought a dog. It’s a black Yorkie poo.
12.24.2009
Jason makes an All-Decade team
11.25.2009
11.23.2009
Roles and wants
Ten a.m. on a Sunday can be a good time to think about who you are and what you might be able to be.
At tip in Charleston against Penn State there maybe were a couple hundred people watching this year’s Wildcats trying to figure that out.
At around 20-4 or so I left my seat and walked up to the concourse at Carolina First and saw a woman up there wearing a Davidson Elite 8 sweatshirt. The calendar says it wasn’t that long ago. It was and it wasn’t.
The legacy of that incredible achievement is many things, and different things to different people, and not yet fixed. The legacy is still very much being determined.
For this year’s team, and particularly for this year’s seniors, the legacy of the Elite 8 is extraordinary expectations. Expectations are good, or can be, but that doesn't mean they’re always fair.
Every player on this team has a new role. That includes Bryant, Will and Steve. Their roles now are as new to them as college ball in general is to JP, Jake and Nik. They’re trying, trying their hardest, maybe trying too hard, to adjust to those new roles.
It remains to be seen whether Bryant, Will and Steve are trying to be things they can’t be. That’s only four real games. But it’s a statement of fact that they're trying to be things they haven’t been.
“I think the biggest part is being expected to be a leader,” Bryant told me after the game outside the locker room. “Right now I’m making mistakes. How can we expect our freshmen to do things the right way if I’m not doing things the right way?”
This could be a long season?
No. This is a long season. They all are.
That’s the point.
At tip in Charleston against Penn State there maybe were a couple hundred people watching this year’s Wildcats trying to figure that out.
At around 20-4 or so I left my seat and walked up to the concourse at Carolina First and saw a woman up there wearing a Davidson Elite 8 sweatshirt. The calendar says it wasn’t that long ago. It was and it wasn’t.
The legacy of that incredible achievement is many things, and different things to different people, and not yet fixed. The legacy is still very much being determined.
For this year’s team, and particularly for this year’s seniors, the legacy of the Elite 8 is extraordinary expectations. Expectations are good, or can be, but that doesn't mean they’re always fair.
Every player on this team has a new role. That includes Bryant, Will and Steve. Their roles now are as new to them as college ball in general is to JP, Jake and Nik. They’re trying, trying their hardest, maybe trying too hard, to adjust to those new roles.
It remains to be seen whether Bryant, Will and Steve are trying to be things they can’t be. That’s only four real games. But it’s a statement of fact that they're trying to be things they haven’t been.
“I think the biggest part is being expected to be a leader,” Bryant told me after the game outside the locker room. “Right now I’m making mistakes. How can we expect our freshmen to do things the right way if I’m not doing things the right way?”
This could be a long season?
No. This is a long season. They all are.
That’s the point.
7.23.2009
A note on odd
Been going through a bunch of material for a new project -- details to come on that -- and came across this fun bit from last November from Will:
As writers like Scoop Jackson try to come up with new angles and names for this whole Davidson/Curry thing, it seems like one adjective has been glaringly omitted.
Odd.
I mean we’ve danced around it with terms like unique and special and one-of-a-kind, but frankly Davidson basketball can be downright odd.
Case in point: As we were watching highlights of Kansas’ elaborate banner-raising ceremony last night, I was told of the story of Davidson’s own Elite 8 banner-raising ceremony.
It consisted of a guy on a ladder and three Sports Info staffers standing in an empty gym clapping.
Upon hearing the clapping from the hallway, a skinny kid wearing a hoodie bounded onto the court and started yelling.
“Steph, stop yelling at the guy on the leader. You’ll make him fall off.”
So the NCAA’s current points leader, first team All-American and now-leading candidate for National Player of the Year runs into the Sports Info office and turns up Queen’s “We Are the Champions” and sings it a little off-key.
We are odd.
6.05.2009
Ripples
Worth noting: The Citadel’s share of NCAA money for Davidson’s run to the Elite Eight of the NCAA basketball tournament in 2007-08 will be about $45,000 a year for five years, Leckonby said.
2.22.2009
Making the argument
Gregg Doyel: Davidson played its way into the 2009 field by nearly playing its way into the 2008 Final Four.
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