The Big Game

I assume that most people watched the big sports event on Sunday, and sat in pure enjoyment at the amazing, exciting, fingernail-tight game.  And most notably above all, celebrated as I did the utterly remarkable victory when the beloved Northwestern basketball team beat national #1 Purdue -- the first time ever in the school's history that they beat a current #1 basketball opponent.

Clearly, this got swamped by the other sports news of the day -- in fact, I'm almost shocked that anyone would even schedule a sports event the same day as the Super Bowl (though at least it was earlier in the day and didn't overlap) -- but it was still really big news.  Not just because it was the beloved Northwestern, but any time a #1 teams loses to a big underdog, it's big news.

​After two dismal seasons in a row, Northwestern has had a pretty good year -- their record is 18-7 and actually have a chance to get selected to the post-season tournament for only the second time ever -- so, it wasn't an otherworldly win.  Just an unexpected huge one.

And glad it got played in Evanston, so the students were able to go crazy throughout the game.  And most especially at the end.