Now Try and Top That!!!

January 21, 2006 will always have a special meaning to me. Yesterday I witnessed, in person, the greatest sports moment of my life.

Now it wasn't the most important and I've been to events were the stake were higher, but there was just something special about the entire experience I had yesterday.

Most people who know me know that I'm a huge Georgetown (yes, I did go to not 1, but 2 different colleges) basketball fan and for Christmas I got season tickets. When I received the tickets, I made sure the game on January 21 was there. That's the day Georgetown was to play Duke.

I was sick Friday night and Saturday morning and had brief thoughts about staying home. But how many times would I have the opportunity to see Duke play...on the lower level...for free? Exactly. So I took some Dayquil and went. Now, I'm on the Subway with the chills and snifling, but I'm NOT going to miss this game. The closer I get to the MCI Center the more Duke fans I see and I'm real upset about it.

I got inside the MCI Center about a half hour before tip and it was already a mad house. My seats are right beside the Georgetown student section and students are nuts. The entire upper deck was for Duke, the middle section was mostly for Duke and the lower level was mostly for Georgetown. It looked more like a NCAA tournament game than a Hoya home game with the different cheers from the crowd.

Georgetown need to play the best game it could to win. That's exactly what happened (outside of shutting down JJ Redick-ridiculous). Brandon Bowman finally showed up and Jeff Green (PG county) sonned Sheldon Williams. Green along with Roy Hibbert kept Williams to a season low 4 points.

Even though Georgetown played well, they still almost lost. Duke came back and had a chance to time with under 7 seconds left in the game. However, when Greg Paulus dribbled the ball off his foot and Bowman jumped on it...the place went nuts (I did NOT rush the court though).

This would still be a big deal if I hadn't gone, but not had the meaning it did with being there. I have been going to Georgetown games for about 20 years now and it has NEVER been like that. It was a great day and I'm excited about the rest of the season.

First the Redskins make the playoffs and now this. 2006 is off to a damn good start.