Basketball Season

Hey guys, did you know our hoops team was on a 14 game win streak and ranked sixth in the country? Certainly doesn't seem like it. A lot of us are still riding the highs and lows of our football season, and thats understandable. It was a fun year, arguably the best team of the last two generations (I'm giving the grandparents the 60's). However, to most of us at this school right now, and for anyone who has long followed Spartan athletics, this is the time of the year we love and are proud of. Basketball season. It is in full force ladies and gentlemen, and the feeling walking around campus is that the students aren't as excited about this team as they should be. Hell, the ALUMNI IZZONE is responsible for our biggest win of the season, and they received high praise for how they rocked Breslin against Indiana, and they are old.

Maybe the reason our squad isn't getting as much love from within this year is because besides Draymond Green (and I guess I have to put Thornton here too), casual fans don't really know our new contributors. Branden Dawson is contributing more and more each game. Keith Appling seems to have finally turned into the slashing, scoring guard we were all hoping for to replace Kalin, Adreian Payne has one or two rim-rattling dunks per game, and Derrick Nix is in the best shape of his life and has the nimble post-moves of a 270 pound ballet dancer.

The thing I like the most about our team however is how much fun they seem to be having winning. Last year's team had the talent, but they didn't have a fraction of the chemistry this team has. Since the Gonzaga win in Spokane, I don't believe Draymond has played a good game by his standards (and he'd be the first to admit it), yet we are still getting the job done...and we all know he will pick it up when it really matters. This is his team.

One of the coolest things about our basketball program is without a doubt our student section. We are recognized consistently as one of the top five student sections in all of college basketball, but behind Duke's Cameron Crazies, I believe we are #2 (not usually ok with being number two, but you have to give credit where credit is due). We, in the Izzone, are a major factor in our team getting wins at home (obviously). Opponents FEAR the green and white in Breslin. The more raucous the crowd, the more rattled they get.

The point of this is to get everyone off their asses and to help cure your football hangover, cause this team is going places. We can sweep the B1G season at home this year, but the entire crowd has to step it up, starting with Iowa tonight. So pour a little whiskey in your pop, drink maybe one or two more Labatts, and get fucking rowdy in Breslin for the rest of the year. Lets hang some more banners.