On to the Championship Game!

First Post of the Day

Purdue did it! We beat North Carolina State and are headed to the NCAA Championship game Monday night!

It was a good game and I was pleased that North Carolina State played a pretty clean game, especially the NCS players who were assigned to guard Zach Edey. Often he ends a game covered in bloody cuts and scratches from the opposing team's players who played dirty to stop him. This game, he was not. I respect a team that plays clean in such a high stakes game, so kudos to North Carolina State.

I don't have a lot of Purdue gear, but I dug around in my closet and found this 2013 Purdue Mom tee that Curt had given me. That was before I lost 100 lbs so I swam in it quite a bit, but that didn't matter. 

Kathy was ready for the big game, too, and sent me this picture of her with Tate in his Boilermaker gear.

When Purdue won, the students on campus came outside in droves and police closed the main street through campus to all traffic so they could safely enjoy celebrating Purdue's big win.

State Street did not reopen until after midnight!

As for the family bracket, perennial last placer Titan is now in fourth place and Cambria in third! Lisa and Craig are tied for first place and I am in a respectable eighth.

We play UConn for the championship and if they win, then Cambria will win this year's bracket and Titan will be second. But if Purdue wins, Lisa and Craig will have to do a tie-breaker to determine the family champion. (When you enter a bracket, you also guess the total amount of points in the championship game in case there is a tie for first place in the bracket at the end. If that tie happens, then whoever has the best guess is then declared the winner.)

Both the eclipse and the championship game are on Monday. That's going to be a very long and a very exciting day.

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