Mercer upset Duke後 鼠妹無意間在Orange fan的討論區看到的 原Po是雪城球迷也是Mercer校友 觀察學生籃球就是那麼有趣啊! 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!!!! 和大家分享鼠妹成為Orange Fan的原因: 鼠爸是個超級籃球迷，小時候鼠妹常被拉在爸爸身邊陪他看球， 國小看的第一場NCAA比賽是1996 NCAA冠軍賽Kentucky vs Syracuse、 Rick Pitino vs Jim Boeheim、Full Court Press vs 2-3 Zone。 Kentucky是Ron Mercer和Antonie Walker領軍的鋼鐵雄獅， Syracuse則是由John Wallace領銜的underdog一路挺進冠軍賽。 鼠妹看到橘色好鮮豔球衣好漂亮，就全場為他們加油，現在想到真的覺得很笨， 呵呵。 Go Orange!!! -- 奧莉薇專屬形象藝術部落格 http://olively.pixnet.net/blog/post/55109673 鼠妹Facebook官方粉絲團 https://zh-tw.facebook.com/olively0121 ※ 編輯: olively 來自: 123.194.230.155 (03/22 20:14)