Sweet Sixteen!

Obviously we are BIG basketball fans. Ryan played basketball through college and basketball is probably my dad's favorite sport so I grew up watching lots of basketball. Friday afternoon we got a call from a work associate of Ryan's offering us tickets to the NCAA Sweet Sixteen Regional at Reliant Stadium. Ryan didn't even have to ask me first, he quickly accepted. Our seats were 5th row, floor, behind the goal. It was awesome.

The first game was Texas vs Stanford. Texas won by a good margin in the end, but it was a well fought, close game. It was practically a home game for Texas. the whole place was "Burnt Orange". I wore Red, just on accident, so I looked like a Stanford fan. Being an Aggie (self proclaimed "2-percenter") I just couldn't put on Burnt Orange. But, I did cheer for Texas (I think I am supposed to call them "t.u.").

The second game was Memphis vs Michigan State. Michigan State is the alma mater of the one and only Magic Johnson. He was at the game and walked by me at about 10 ft away. He is a BIG man.

Memphis was killing Michigan St by half... 50 - 20. Wow. We saw some great dunks toward halftime but by the beginning of the second half, the scrubs were in and it was just not that much fun so we didn't stay till the end.


It was a great night. Texas won and moved to the "Elite Eight".

If only Mississippi State had beat Memphis in the previous round, I would have been at the Sweet Sixteen watching my favorite team play. Life isn't perfect but its pretty good!! ;)

All the pictures can be seen here.