Tuesday, March 17, 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section B · Page 3
"The team, jumping, piling, celebrating at center court, gains the right to travel to Oakland, Calif., for the Sweet 16." Photo by Geoff Krieger/KANSAN
4:30 p.m.
Band is team's partner in Dance
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6 p.m.
together, watch basketball. Excitem ent for the men's and women's games is growing.
The CBS station in Iowa City doesn't show any of the men's game. We have another pep rally in the lobby, and the team again seems fired up. We pile on the bus to head to Carver-Hawkeye Arena. The halftime score of the men's game floats through the bus: 30-28.
We are arrayed in our band space in the arena. A nervous buzz permeates our group. I ask a Kansan photographer what the score is, and he says he will check. He brings me the score — we're down by six with four minutes to play — and a cookie. The cookie is good, but it doesn't make me happy.
6:05 p.m.
The men's team has lost. I sip ice water and commiserate with the rest of the band.
6:10 p.m.
Our band director tells us that he doesn't know about us, but he wants
to make sure Kansas teams go 1-1 today. We cheer and start to play.
6:30 p.m.
Tipoff. The Hawkeyes seem fired up, confident. They are the higher seed, playing on their home court, and for awhile it seems they can't miss.
The Jayhawks battle back though, and they pull within seven at halftime. We are hopeful. We cheer every possession, screaming through the waves of crowd noise from the Hawkeye faithful.
Sometimes it gets confusing when they shout "Go Hawks." I want to shout with them.
8:20 p.m.
The game is finished. Kansas wins. The team, jumping, piling, celebrating at center court, gains the right to travel to Oakland, Calif., for the Sweet 16.
The game approaches the final minutes. Kansas goes on a run and pulls ahead. We yell. The two teams trade basketkes. The lead sees saws back and forth. We cheer; the Hawkew fans cheer. It is noisy.
The band is hoarse, happy and covered in the glittering confetti that someone brought along. We
8:30 p.m.
play "Home on the Range." We leave.
11 p.m.
I'm worn out. People are studying, chattering and watching the movies.
I fall into a kind of half-sleep, the jostlings of the road and the uncomfortable seat position preventing full-scale slumber.
We're driving through Iowa. Stripes and Top Gun already have played out on the bus's VCR, and someone puts in Spaceballs.
7:01 a.m.
We arrive in Lawrence. I drive the person I picked up Friday to her house. I go home, throw my stuff on my bedroom floor and crash. As I walk into the house, I can see beer bottles and game-watching debris scattered across the floor and couches.
My alarm goes off. I don't know where I am for a few moments, but after some self-convincing, I struggle out of bed and into the shower. It's a bit early to be getting up after a late Sunday night, but that's okay. The Jayhawks are in the Big Dance.
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