It's Tourney Time
I just got back from Dallas, where I was attending meetings and the Big 12 Men's and Women's Basketball Championships.
Texas A&M was the 3 seed in the women's tournament and beat Nebraska in the quarterfinals before losing to Baylor by one point in the semifinals. The men were the 4 seed and destroyed Colorado by 33 in the quarterfinals before losing to Texas by four in the semifinals.
Now, that may seem pretty average for conference tournaments, but consider this: Texas A&M was 1-18 in the first nine Big 12 tournaments combined. The women won their opening-round game of the inaugural tournament in 1997. And yes, that does mean the men were 0-fer until Friday's drubbing of CU. So, Gig 'Em!
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Also in Dallas this week, I got to meet with our new multimedia partner, Learfield. I am still very impressed and look very forward to their coming on board. My boss and I went to dinner with our new partner and a couple of other schools last night after our win. We ate at The Palm. It was fantastic food.
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OK, everyone pray to the basketball gods that they let the men into the NCAA tournament. I know we had a weak OOC schedule, but c'mon, we won eight of our last nine in the Big 12. We finished fourth in a BCS conference. We should be in.
FYI, the women are safely in the Dance. We have really found great coaches to make A&M a basketball school.
posted by Drew @ 6:48 PM
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2 Comments:
I enjoy the reference to BCS conferences. And they said A&M was becoming a basketball school.
OK, Mr. Smartpants. What I clearly mean by BCS conferences are the Pac-10, Big Ten, Big 12, ACC, SEC, and Big East. Power conferences. Fourth place teams in those conference will go to the tournament 99.9% of the time. Plus, it's just another way that we "haves" remind the "have-nots" of who calls the shots -- in all sports!
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