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A friend of mine is a photographer who usually shoots for Purdue, but does other universities and was invited to shoot the Xavier introduction of men and women players, "Musketeer Madness," which is an extraordinary event in front of a full arena. In fact, I was in awe of this celebration opening basketball season. When I looked at this, I put myself in the shoes of a potential recruit. If Valpo could create a "Midnight Madness" even partially as good as this, especially to celebrate entrance into the MVC, I'd be very happy. Following is a link to the women's half of the event:
https://pinolaphoto.com/2017/10/23/xavier-womens-basketball-at-musketeer-madness/https://pinolaphoto.com/2017/10/23/xavier-womens-basketball-at-musketeer-madness/


Also, here is a link to many more incredible photos that include the men's amazing festivities (be sure to scroll down past the swimming and women's soccer photographs):
https://pinolaphotography.exposure.co/the-week-in-photos-88

Well don't scroll too fast past the swimming and soccer photos. 

I knew that this would eventually happen, but it was a shock when I saw it this morning. I have enjoyed watching Homer coach, and look forward to seeing how Bryce does on his own. This should be an interesting year.

I hope that he gets better. I wondered what was going on because he just did not look the same.

There you go and that is why Ryan also struggled in the last two games of the season as well he has been one sick young man and what a shame Brandon was not 100% either.   Sure does make sense now why they were down and why Ryan's shots kept falling short.   Shows great courage that they even played tonight.

Pictures are now up. I tried to get a few of the seniors. I look forward to getting a few more next season.

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A rough game to watch tonight. My write up on the game is now up. I am going through my pictures, and should have them up in about a half hour.

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I was going to ask the same thing. I couldn't believe how much he was on the bench. Early in the game he came in and nailed a couple of shots. I came here as soon as I got home to see if he was sick or something. Very weird.

So, was Brandon sick or what?  Hav eyou ever seen him on the bench for 14 minutes in the second half when we are down--or ever?  Something was up.
Our problem all year--we could have won several more--is we were a bad 3 point shooting team.  Not just tonight, we were something like 8th or 9th in the conference.  Couple that with our free throw shooting and ther you have it.
Some real mysteries of last with Ryan kind of disappearing etc.  Why didn't Mattt assert himself earlier?
I think you will see Jay and Brandon playing more together next year.  Erik is a great defender but as someone else said, teams have figured him out.  Perhaps a healthy Tommy Kurth will help also as he at least could shoot free throws.

We will be hard pressed to improve on this year unless we get someone big to jelp or Vucic or Cam really step it up.  Otherwise we will be bombing away with the same result--some great games and others like tonight.

So, was Brandon sick or what?  Hav eyou ever seen him on the bench for 14 minutes in the second half when we are down--or ever?  Something was up.
Our problem all year--we could have won several more--is we were a bad 3 point shooting team.  Not just tonight, we were something like 8th or 9th in the conference.  Couple that with our free throw shooting and ther you have it.
Some real mysteries of last with Ryan kind of disappearing etc.  Why didn't Mattt assert himself earlier?
I think you will see Jay and Brandon playing more together next year.  Erik is a great defender but as someone else said, teams have figured him out.  Perhaps a healthy Tommy Kurth will help also as he at least could shoot free throws.

We will be hard pressed to improve on this year unless we get someone big to jelp or Vucic or Cam really step it up.  Otherwise we will be bombing away with the same result--some great games and others like tonight.

For anyone old enough to remember the movie "Meatballs" with Bill Murray, CIT reminds me of this song:

We are the C.I.T.s so pity us. / The kids are brats; the food is hideous. / We're gonna smoke and drink and fool around. / We're nookie-bound!... / We are the North Star C.I.T.s!

Bill had some great moments in that movie. When I think of it I think of his rousing sports speech that ended in everyone chanting "It just doesn't matter."

According to the write up on their site it looks like Valpo committed last week. Now the marketing post makes a lot more sense. They knew they were hosting Friday.

Any details on the game yet? I guess the question is do they know what time it will be?

Your first bandwagoner has arrived.

I guess I am second on the bandwagon then!