Day 140 / 57 To Go: All Things Basketball

Posted by: Cris

T-shirts are as close as you'll get to having the Pidgin in our house:
I'm grouchy:

Nova does have her mommy's trait of not liking to wake up from sleeping - both in the morning and after nap it takes her a little bit to be happy that she had to get out of bed.

An apple a day for Juneau - no wonder she's so tall.

The girls spent the day at the park followed by a trip to shopping/play. They should have been worn out y naptime but when I got home about 2:30, they were still awake after having been down for nap for almost an hour. I went down and talked to them and they were having trouble getting to sleep but were obviously tired. I told them I'd lay by them for a minute and next thing I knew, it was 2 hours later:

Today started the NCAA basketball tournament for real (yes, I know there were play-in games the last 2 days but I don't really count those). I'm sure the University of Hawaii network was running a bit slower today as we all were sitting at our desks streaming the games while we worked thanks to ESPN.com

You are a basketball nerd if:

This week Alex & Lyndsey were filling out their tournament brackets. At one point Alex asked "who should I pick for my 5-12 upset?" Now, for those who aren't NCAA tournament aficionados, historically, the match-up between the #5 seeds and #12 seeds are rife for upsets. Almost every year there is at least one #12 that upsets a #5. If you are only 13 years old and already know that you need to pick a 5-12 upset in your bracket, you are a basketball nerd. (Sure enough, on day 1 there was a 5-12 upset - and a 4-13 upset - Did you pick Richmond as your 5-12 Alex?)

Finally in basketball news, this year marks the age at which real rules for who plays where start to kick in for AAU basketball for Alex and Lyndsey. They aren't allowed to play with all the girls from their school team on an AAU team like they did last year so that meant finding a new club.

Their new club divided up teams tonight after a couple days of practice and Alex & Lyndsey got picked to play on the elite team which is up an age group (basically, the 8th grade level)

So, on that team, they will be playing in 5 tournaments this year which are NCAA sanctioned, which means, they are approved by the NCAA to allow scouting by college coaches.

Excuse me?

Colleges are scouting 8th grade girls basketball? Organized sport in this country is officially out of control!

Regardless, congratulations to my awesome nieces...keep working hard and having fun!!