FWIW, I sat at the Classic since 9 this morning watching DC which I spent the whole day watching them. I did see the last Bass game of the day where Lat had a pretty good game lost by two at the end of it. Some stupid white kid dunked it at the buzzer to beat Lats team. I must say in DC's last game of the tourny McGruder shocked the arena down by twenty he and Darryl Traynham pretty much led a come back which resulted in a 96-95 final by far the best game of the tourny. McGruder and Judge impressed me a lot today, though Wally was hurting by the last game and fouled out with 8 minutes left. Also down 7 playing 4 on 5 since 3 players fouled out for DC McGruder hit a some key shots that almost brought that comeback into a win. I sat with his mom and sister at the rec center for 2 different games and was advised by them that McGruder, Judger, and Traynham had been super impressed with the Kstate fans showing the support, and fell in love with Manhattan, ALSO I got to speak to The coach of the DC team for about five minutes he said thanks to all the fans and was also impressed and thinks MANHATTAN was by far the BEST tournament atmosphere he has been in for a long time. He also thinks that any kid would probably love to play ball at Kstate with the fans the way they are, He also advised me while getting a tournament shirt that he is a pretty big fan himself. This blog is not about the stats but how impressive I think the DC team as a whole played, also that Wally, McGruder, and D-Trayn impressed me very much, we all have our complaints about what ever, but I believe we would be lucky to have all three in a few years. Also Lat had a good tourny and I was very impressed with him, a five star is always a good note for any team. I met a lot of good people this weekend and I am looking forward to many good years of basketball for state all we have to do is make it through this one with Clemente, Awaji, and Herrera, I think things are going to be just fine. One final note at the beginning of the first game this morning for DC, Judge came out with a Micheal Beasley Shirt on over his Jersey, which I guess was his way of showing thanks to KSU. Yesterday it was the purple shoes and the under shirt today it was the Beasley shirt. I love watching a team thats from over a 1000 miles away showing love for K-State.
