Our Basketball Teams

 

Last week the Notre Dame women won the ACC basketball tournament.  We enjoyed watching freshman Hannah Hidalgo who was named the ACC tournament MVP.  She is so feisty; she steals the ball from opponents.  If she is double-teamed, she finds her teammates and gets an assist. So now we get to watch them again in the NCAA tournament beginning on Saturday.

And we watched the NCSU men surprisingly take the ACC tournament championship after playing five games in five days to do so.  They beat Duke, Virginia, and Carolina.  When they were playing Virginia, we turned the TV off when it looked like a lost cause--and then they tied the game at the last second and won in overtime.  We decided it was good luck for them if we turned the game off.  

So when they were playing UNC and were not doing well, we turned it off again.  And then UNC's star player, RJ Davis, stopped hitting all his shots and NCSU's star player DJ Burns (the body of a football center with the feet of a ballerina) continued to do his thing and they won!  Thus they were able to be in the NCAA tournament--winning was their only chance to do so.  So we can watch them later this week too!

March Madness is always fun and now we have two teams we care about that we can cheer on to victory--unless we decide again that we bring them bad luck and thus have to turn the games off.

---------March 31  ND's women lost to Oregon State but NCSU's men won over Texas Tech and then this evening over Duke in another great DJ Burn's show.  This means that NCSU has both men's and women's teams in the Final Four.  To be continued!