box score : audio - coach john thompson
audio - jonathan wallace
Thirteen observations from The Meadowlands:
1. Coach Carril wearing a Georgetown baseball cap is something that takes getting used to. Tried to sneak a picture of this, took a photo of my lap instead.
2. I don't think I've ever seen one Big East team outrebound another 39-11. DaJuan Summers had one fewer board than the entire Seton Hall team.
3. Jeff Green's one-handed fast break alley-oop dunk was so sick most of northern New Jersey should be under quarantine.
4. Is there another Division I basketball coach who makes their entrance to the floor slapping hands with eager undergraduates before running directly into the center of the student section, screaming? I'm thinking Seton Hall coach Bobby Gonzalez is alone in this regard. Thankfully.
5. Should officials review a shot at the halftime buzzer and confirm that the ball was still in the shooter's hand after time ran out, it does not give you the luxury to keep yelling "THAT WAS A BAD CALL!!," especially if you're sitting across the aisle from me.
6. If every halftime is going to feature a karate demonstration *and* a basketball scrimmage between PAL squads from Trenton and Newark, the length of this break needs to be doubled, perhaps tripled.
7. At one point Trenton PAL has all ten of their players on the court, while Newark had but five. Somewhere, David Klatsky just got a chill.
8. Wondering what it would have been like for the Ivy League had Jonathan Wallace gone to Princeton like he originally planned is something I probably shouldn't do any more of.
9. When Wallace tugs on his jersey and motions to the bench midway through the second half to say "take me out, I'm tired" he also means "I will rest for fifty seconds then score 12 points in the last ten minutes of play."
10. If your student section is being out-cheered by a busload of Georgetown fans at the top of the arena, silence and two middle fingers in their direction is not the appropriate response, especially when it is the option simultaneously chosen by a good number of people.
11. The theme from Star Wars mixed with "jock jam" techno is not the best player introduction music a team could have, yet I'm strangely curious about trying to remember the name of the second song in this ersatz mash-up.
12. Georgetown spent Tuesday night having pizza at Conte's in Princeton. This = awesome.
13. I hope on the 29th I park on the right side of the arena. Brrrrrrrrrrrr.
