Many years, we are the last ones out of the Salem Civic Center. It’s a working night for us, where we try to update the site before heading out and grabbing dinner and a couple of drinks.
So happy St. Patrick’s Day. The Purple and White will be wearing the green, and the Walnut and Bronze.
We’re the last ones on the floor, our crew and Diehardfan and David Collinge, posting Hall of Famers. The Amherst players left about 20 minutes ago, destined for the Golden Corral. No lie. I suggested to Dave Hixon, the D3hoops.com Coach of the Year by the way, that since the NCAA was paying for it, they might want to step up a couple classes in restaurant. But they don’t have all night, exactly. Might take a while to get served.
Congrats to Amherst and the NESCAC for adding another title. I asked in the postgame news conference whether the players had any extra glee over joining their archrival Williams in the pantheon of champions, and I think there is.
And congrats to DePauw and coach Kris Huffman for their title as well. We’ll leave it to our Springfield crew to wax poetic about the weekend.
We will post the All-American teams later tonight.
Still in Roanoke. My third flight out of here was just delayed by an hour. At least I haven’t been waiting on an actual plane at this point.
US Air keeps giving away our planes and pilots to ferry people in and out of Charlotte. I couldn’t get a one-way car rental to get out of this place last night, but those who are familiar with the area will at least recognize I got a deal on a hotel when I paid just $49 for the Wyndham last night.
But I did get my post-Salem wrapup written sooner than anticipated. It’s posted on the front page.