12.30.2009

Nov. 19, 2008

Will Bryan on Somewhere in the Middle:

As writers like Scoop Jackson try to come up with new angles and names for this whole Davidson/Curry thing, it seems like one adjective has been glaringly omitted.

Odd.

I mean we've danced around it with terms like unique and special and one-of-a-kind, but frankly Davidson basketball can be downright odd.

Case in point: As we were watching highlights Kansas' elaborate banner-raising ceremony last night, I was told of the story of Davidson's own Elite 8 banner-raising ceremony.

It consisted of a guy on a ladder and three sports information staffers standing in an empty gym clapping.

Upon hearing the clapping from the hallway, a skinny kid wearing a hoodie bounded onto the court and started yelling.

"Steph, stop yelling at the guy on the ladder. You'll make him fall off."

So the NCAA's current points leader, first team All-American and now-leading candidate for National Player of the Year runs into the sports information office and turns up Queen's "We are the Champions" and sings it a little off-key.

We are odd.


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