Found March 05, 2009 on From The Barn: Yardbarker Blogger Network
As anyone who has participated in a live blog here can tell you, I check my objective blogger persona at the door when the Gophers are in a close game. This is especially the case at The Barn when Wisconsin comes to town. While comparisons to past games and various statistics are still floating around in the back of my head, I am reduced to yells of "Yes!" and "No" and am caught up in the emotion that makes college basketball my favorite sport. So much so in fact that I'm lucky if I remember who made the last basket let alone what happened a few plays ago. That was once again the case last night. I know the Gophers won, and I know Lawrence Westbrook had a lot to do with it, but the specifics are all missing. In intense rivalry games, concentrating on anything other than red being evil and Bo Ryan being even worse would have just gotten in the way of the exciting chaos that swept the student section during the Gophers' first close home win ...
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