KU Wins the National Championship!

We finally did it! KU is the best basketball team in the NATION!!! I was alive in '88 when we last won it, but I was nowhere near the kind of KU fan that I am today. I watched the game over at my bro-in-law's house with family and friends, and never before have I been so excited, nervous, anxious, yet overjoyed over a sporting event. I've always said that Jayhawk basketball is the BEST sporting event to watch, and especially attend (everyone needs to experience a game at Allen Fieldhouse) - but this season it has proven completely true!

I was able to attend a few games this year - two of them from the 5th row, halfcourt, on the bench side thanks to Lindsay's Dad's friend. I've posted a few pictures below to show how close we actually were...yet the pictures don't seem to capture how close we really were to the action. Hearing the players talk to the scorers check-in table, hearing Coach Self yell out plays, and seeing just how high these guys jump to get rebounds is stuff you don't get watching it on TV - or even High Def like I did for the championship.

Calvin was lucky enough to go to his first ever game in Allen Fieldhouse on Jan 8th against Loyola (Md) where we trounced them 90-60. It's pretty cool that his first ever game to the Fieldhouse was to see a National Championship team. It will be especially cool when he goes on to play at KU on scholarship - right? We've been out working on his shot every day since the game. Calvin Clements sounds like a KU basketball player, doesn't it?

This town is buzzing with basketball fever - tomorrow we're taking the family to go buy our championship t-shirts!

Rock Chalk Jayhawk - GO KU!!