Mercer upset Duke後 鼠妹无意间在Orange fan的讨论区看到的 原Po是雪城球迷也是Mercer校友 观察学生篮球就是那麽有趣啊! Syracuse is my first love and always will be but I can't tell you guys what this means to me. My freshman and sophomore year Mercer made the conference tournament championship game but came up short each time. My junior year and senior year, we just fell apart. We went like 3-23 my senior year. Our claim to fame back then was that we were coached by Bill Hodges, Larry Bird's college coach. All four years, we never really got much support. We used to play off campus in the 10000 seat Macon Coliseum and I would ask my friends in the dorm if they were going to the game and they looked at me like my head was purple or something. But I would be there with a few hundred loyal supporters. We improved a little bit with the next coach but were basically stuck in the middle of the conference. Finally in 2005, they opened the University Center, our on-campus 3500 arena. (This was supposed to open in 1998 so I would be the first class to graduate in it). That made a huge difference in improving the atmosphere for the games. Coach Hoffman has turned out to be a great hire when we got him in 2008. It actually came down to him or Rex Walters and I have to be honest, I wanted the more high profile name. But Coach Hoffman is a veteran coach and has had quite a varied career, even moving over to coach women for a few years, and he has done a fantastic job. Just a great fit for the program. I wasn't sure if this group would ever make it once we lost in the conference championship game the past 2 years. But they finally did it as seniors! We beat Seton Hall and Ole Miss this year and finally beat Fla Gulf Coast to make the Big Dance. And we just beat Duke today and I never would have imagined it when I was a student!!!! 和大家分享鼠妹成为Orange Fan的原因: 鼠爸是个超级篮球迷，小时候鼠妹常被拉在爸爸身边陪他看球， 国小看的第一场NCAA比赛是1996 NCAA冠军赛Kentucky vs Syracuse、 Rick Pitino vs Jim Boeheim、Full Court Press vs 2-3 Zone。 Kentucky是Ron Mercer和Antonie Walker领军的钢铁雄狮， Syracuse则是由John Wallace领衔的underdog一路挺进冠军赛。 鼠妹看到橘色好鲜艳球衣好漂亮，就全场为他们加油，现在想到真的觉得很笨， 呵呵。 Go Orange!!! -- 奥莉薇专属形象艺术部落格 http://olively.pixnet.net/blog/post/55109673 鼠妹Facebook官方粉丝团 https://zh-tw.facebook.com/olively0121 ※ 编辑: olively 来自: 123.194.230.155 (03/22 20:14)