SAN ANTONIO – “You mean ‘just come to campus and look for the red brick building’ didn’t work?”
That’s what Trinity SID Justin Parker asked me a few minutes after I sat down at press row here, about seven and a half minutes into the game with Trinity trailing Millsaps 16-8. Uhh, no, and while I knew how to get here, let’s just say it’s not been the best morning. But I got to see a lot of campus. And red brick buildings.
These Sunday morning games can’t be much easier on the players either. Millsaps’ trip this time hasn’t been too difficult but the second day of a trip including DePauw and Centre or Oglethorpe and Sewanee can’t be easy.
Even more so in the UAA, which plays a similar schedule and has teams going from Atlanta to Cleveland, from St. Louis to Chicago or from New York City to Boston.
Trinity has taken a 20-19 lead. The Tigers have given uniform numbers to 17 players, 11 of them freshmen and sophomores. It’s been a ragged first half, with the times shooting a combined 16-for-53. And seemingly worse than that since I got in the building.