Tonight, Boston University held their annual Terrier Tip-off. The event was held at the Roof at Case Gymnasium. Status Quo got the place jumping with their dancing. Hot Dog and Jesus must have been going nuts. They are big fans! They were followed up by an awesome performance by the BU Drum Line. If the school is smart, that line is at every single home game. An awesome way to get the fans pumped before a game.

When the men's team was introduced, Pat Chambers jumped on the scorers-table to throw shirts to the fans. He then went into insane chanting for BU, Corey Lowe and others. The man screamed and yelled and jumped on the scorers-table again to get everyone up, ripped off his jacket and said, "we have a new attitude." He ended his speech by saying he wants to finally sell out Agganis for a BU basketball game against GW for the home opener.

Talk about excitement and energy. If you are a BU fan, and you saw it, you have to be jacked about this year and the future. The word, WOW, doesn't even describe the energy this guy has. You could tell by watching this event that this team has a swagger. It is an amazing thing to see. However, word of advice to BU, when you introduce the team, don't play Jay-Z's Empire State of Mind...YOU ARE IN BOSTON!

Let me say, the Dance Team, makes up for all of it. Can't wait for our friends Hot Dog and Jesus to do their annual dance team tournament, haha. (buy the way, nice rock, tree, bridge guys!) I did get a good laugh when the men's team started doing "Thriller" with them.

Tyler Morris took down Corey Strong 5-4 in the three-point contest. He would then go on to defeat Alex Young from the women's team 11-7 to take the competition. However, the dunk contest was the big event. It pitted B.J Bailey, Patrick Hazel, Jake O'Brien, Jeff Pelage, John Holland, and Carlos Strong against one another. Holland nailed down a solid windmill, but Carlos Strong nailed a beautiful 360-spin off a bounce in the first round. O'Brien nailed a solid MJ side-windmill dunk in the 2nd round. However, Holland nailed a beautiful guerrilla slam. Strong came back with a foul line dunk, even though he didn't jump from the foul line. Holland and Strong would advance to the finals.

In the finals, Holland failed three times to jump over Michael Schulze. However, Strong would need to go to his third try to nail another reverse dunk to take the title. Strong would win the title for the second year in a row.

Overall, a great event put together by BU. Like I said before, the event clearly should put a spark into Terrier fans. The season is pushing even closer!

Note - Stony Brook has announced that they will have an event on October 28th on their campus. B-Ball Madness in Pritchard Gym will start at 7:00 p.m.