3/9: #9 seed Central FL, 11-17, 6-12, beat #8. We play them in the quarters.
3/10: 79-60. 17, 3, 3 for Sith, 11, 11 for Pry. Easy win.
But Sid Sith hurt his back. He’ll play limited minutes for the rest of the tournament.
#5 seed Memphis, 15-13, 9-9 in the semis.
3/11: 69-40. 15, 16, 2, 4, 5 for Pry, 11, 14 for Ford, 14, 7 for Anes. 56 RBs, 9 TOs.
17-12, 10-8 Houston upset Cincy. We play them for the title.
Ford hurt his leg. He’ll go, but not sure how effective he’ll be.
3/12: 73-53 and the title. 20 for Anes but then 7 guys who scored between 6 and 10. +13 TOs.
Will we be #1 overall? 31-2, 16-2, #2, RPI #1.
#2 overall, #1 Midwest. We play Quinnipiac, 16-16, first.
A breakthrough? We have people who’ve been looking at the video over and over and over. Someone thought she saw a shimmer. We enhanced the videos and the shimmer was there- in every video we have where an explosion took place.
What does that mean? We know that stealth technology was in place before the world fell apart 500 years ago. Has someone rediscovered it, or gone back into the files and found out how it was done?
Who? Why? What can we do about it?
What we can do is what we will do. We’ve been checking strictly via visual means. If someone- and who the someone is will have to wait- is coming at us with masking or stealth technology we’re going to check for mass with our robotic and video guards. We can program for that in no time. The feeling is we have the technology already. It’s just a matter of putting it into the machines.
The point was made that we will need to blow up any intruders coming at us. Then the point was made that we don’t want to blow that stuff up right here in the communities.
So, over the next few days we’re going to move our guardian robots and video cams out to spots as far out on the edges of our communities as possible, and even farther away than that, equip them with small explosives that will blow up the cloaked drones that are coming at us. That will either blow any explosives on board or stop them from exploding. We don’t care which right now. We’ll fine tune later.
Manufacture has already begun.
3/14: Damn! Before we could get things in place our other four communities were hit just as hard as the first four. Massive damage and lots of casualties. The only consolation is that this will probably be the last successful strike.
3/16: 59-48. We were awful. 18, 5, 5, 4 for Mars, 14, 10 for Pry. No one else did much of anything. We won because we had a huge edge in talent.
Jay Holt cracked an ankle and he’s out for about 2 weeks.
#9 seed, conf. rival Houston, 18-13, 10-8, in the 2nd round.
3/18: 70-58. We quickly jumped to a 22 point lead and never looked back. 25, 14 for Pry. 45 RBs, 10 TOs.
Will Mars hurt his shoulder. We think he’ll be okay for our next game.
Equipment in place in about 20% of the areas in the 8 communities.
#4 seed, #18 ranked Oklahoma ST, 24-8, in the Sweet Sixteen.
3/23: 78-55. 22, 17 for Pry, 16, 4, 2 for Anes. 53 RBs, 8 TOs.
#2 seed, #6 ranked Michigan, 26-8, in the Elite Eight.
3/25: And just that quickly it ends, 61-71. We shot 29.6%, we gave up 10 threes, and we let them control the boards, 36-46.
Our defenses are in place.
3/26: We needed to make some adjustments. A few birds and bats were misidentified. We know how to tweak to fix that. All of this stuff is computerized and remotely directed so we can actually reprogram and send the fix out to all of the equipment right where it is. No need to actually fix manually.
3/27: And the fix is complete.
3/31: Strikes aimed at 4 communities were 100% repulsed. Lots of explosions out in the middle of nowhere but no damage to any property, no casualties.
We need to capture one of these shielded drones somehow. Our people are working on ways to do that.
4/3: All kinds of upsets and in the end #12 Pitt defeated #6 Michigan, 97-91 for the title.
4/4: Awards: Sol Pry made 2nd team All American, and I was national COY. In conf., Sol was POY, Defensive POY, and 1st team. Will Mars was Frosh OY and 1st team. Sid Sith, Hal Ford, and Rob Mack made 2nd team. I got Conf. COY.
We’re still trying to come up with a way to capture an enemy drone, in hopes of- well lots of things, including finding out who the enemy is.
4/23: We ask for money again. We got it 3 years in a row. I’m not counting on much. No luck.
34-3, 16-2, but an early end to the season in the Elite Eight. We’re at the stage of our program when we expect to reach the Final Four just about every year, and expect titles- regularly.
Overall record: 476-110, .812.
4/26: We have a plan for capturing drones. With just a little luck, the next time they raid we should be able to capture about ½ dozen in each community, unharmed. We’ll see how that goes.
4/29: Success! We captured a total of 17 drones. We had hoped for 36 or more but we’ll take it. They have all been disarmed and are being brought to a lab in Detroit for study.