Last night I went out to the NIT Men's Basketball game at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse. I think out of every sport, I enjoy watching college basketball the most. And having Syracuse University basically right next door helps out a lot with that because it means I can actually go to games every so often.

And I probably shouldn't even be admitting this, but I kinda like it better when Syracuse doesn't get to the NCAA Tournament. Because that means they're probably going to be in the NIT and they're also probably going to be playing at least 1 game and possibly 2 at the carrier dome. And the season ticket holders who are usually rich old guys, not the real fans don't get their seats reserved for NIT games, which means even though the crowd is smaller (usually), it's much more lively. I say usually because I was there last year when 26,000 screaming fans attended and shattered the NIT single game attendence record which was probably the most amazing game I've ever attended because of the crowd.

So we went out to the game last night against Robert Morris, we being myself and my parents. It started off pretty rocky…well, actually it ended pretty rocky too. Syracuse played pretty sloppily for most of the game, missing a lot of their shots in the first half and almost all of their free throws in the second. Or what seemed like almost all, because looking at the box score I see they were shooting 53%.

One thing I should also mention is the fact that nobody had any idea
how the rows were labeled in the section we were sitting in. We had a
little trouble to begin with and we ended up pointing a bunch of people
to the right rows by the end of the game. Oh, and the people behind us
were having an awful hard time trying to figure out where the opposing
team was from. I kinda felt sorry for RMU's cheerleaders too, because they were happy and waving and trying to get the crowd to cheer…and didn't seem to realize that they were in Syracuse. Tough crowd.

Anyway, it was a fun time, but I'm not going to be able to make the second game because it's tomorrow and I have class. Bah. Bad scheduling on their part.

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