RT @defiantlydutch: Hate to quote the Black Eyed Peas, but I got a feeling tonight’s gonna be a good good night! #BEATUNC #HOFSTRA
I’ll be live-tweeting tonight’s game from Magness Arena, and you can follow along right here, thanks to Cover It Live. The game starts at 7:00 PM Mountain Time, but I’ll start tweeting a while before that. You can also listen on the radio here, or watch on FSN Rocky Mountain.
To join in the conversation, tweet something “@brendanloy,” and it’ll appear below. If you like, you can do this using the reply window at the bottom of this post! (NOTE: After the first tweet, you will need to retype “@brendanloy” in the window for each subsequent tweet.)
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Sweet! I’ll apparently be at a press table behind one of the baselines. Look for DU Bally! RT @thrashsoundly: CSU DU game is on here on FSN.
RT @RepPaulRyan: We’ve got to get serious on entitlement reform, because if we don’t tackle this problem, it’s going to tackle us. http://bit.ly/bch3EC
RT @TheRickWilson: Today, antimatter…tomorrow: warp drive. YES! http://bit.ly/c8zSUs
RT @iowahawkblog: What did William Butler Yeats yell at the football referee? “The center cannot hold!” #elitisthumor
RT @dlindber: odds of TSA backscatter machine killing you the same as getting killed by terrorists. http://goo.gl/3ZCuz Brilliant!
RT @denverpost: PHOTOS: #TSA screening passengers w/ new security measures at Denver International Airport yesterday: http://dpo.st/aTEbJ3
One does not simply walk into Magness Arena. There is a Princeton-style offense there that does not rest. And the great Eye of Joe Scott is ever watchful.
–Boromir, son of Denethor, loosely paraphrased
I don’t have a lot of insightful basketball analysis to offer in advance of today’s home opener for Denver against Colorado State. I’ll just say that it strikes me as a very big game, bordering on huge, despite how early we are in the season, for a number of reasons:
The vice president of DU’s Student Spirit Committee, Joey Leon, e-mailed me tonight and asked if I’d be willing to post their flyer about tomorrow’s game on my blog. Although it’s finals week at DU, they’re trying to encourage students to come to the home opener against Colorado State by putting on a “Spirit Night” that apparently features various prizes and giveaways. Anyway, I’m happy to post the flyer (as did LetsGoDU). Here it is:
I’ll have more to say about the CSU game tomorrow. Stay tuned!
P.S. I also hope to eventually do some reporting on the ongoing efforts to ramp up student spirit and enthusiasm around the basketball team, at what is essentially a “hockey school.” So stay tuned for that, too, eventually. And if you have thoughts on it, or any other topic that might be of interest to my blog, leave a comment or e-mail me!
P.P.S. This video seemingly sheds some light on the “d.u.g.s. pregame” event: