Hereafter

[Wayne23]

12/19: 84-73. Up 7 after 10. Down 5 at the half; not happy. Up 6 with 10 to go. They played hard but they don't have much talent.

16, 7, 3, with 3 steals for Bond. 13, 6, 4 for Bank, 13, 6 for Heng.

+14 RBs. We shot 53.8%, 5 more Fgs. +8 from the line. Threes were the only thing they had going, -8 for us. We were +18 in the paint.

John Watt strained a calf muscle. Out about a week but he doesn't play much.

9-3, NET #160, 6 game win streak.

At 2-7 Florida A & M next. We have big edges in all statistical categories, but again, it's a road game.

The two men who got into the fight were both restricted to quarters for a week. They worked in the same department, and were listed as semi-skilled.

One will be transferred to a different department on a different level of the ship, and they will work different shifts.

[Wayne23]

12/22: 75-83. Early lead. Up 6 after 10. Down 4 at the half. Down 4 with 10 left. We gave up way too many points in the 2nd half, 46.

17, 8, 4, with 5 steals for Maer, 15, 6 for Bank. No one else did much.

+5 RBs. We shot 35.9% to 50%, and were -14 in the paint.

At 2-10This is another game we should win easily but with road games you can't be sure. Houston Batfest to end pre-conference play.

[Wayne23]

12/26: 79-72. We take a lead but it's close. Up 5 after 10. Up 1 at the half. Up 6 with 10 to go. They hung in all the way.

25, 11 for Bond, 13, 8 for Bank.

+13 RBs. We held them to 36.5% while shooting 42%. +13 from the line.

Watt strained a calf muscle. Day to day.

We end pre-conference play at 10-4, NET #206. 7-1 after a 3-3 start.

6th in PPG, 2nd in RBs, #44 in NET Rating, #48 on O, 65 on D. But we give up too many, #238 in PPG Allowed, and we shoot poorly, #228, #262 on threes.

+8.3 PPG, +7.9 RBs, -4.3 TOs.

Corey Heng leads us with 14.4, 2nd in RBs. Wyatt Bond gets 14.1, #1 in RBs with 7.6. Our other 3 starters get between 11.6 and 8.1. 6th man Jo Bank gets 10.8.

We're picked to win the AEC.

1st AEC game is at 7-7 NJIT. They have an edge on the bench, we think we're better inside, and maybe outside, too. On RBS we get 11.1 more per game.

[Wayne23]

1/2/2026: 74-90. Back and forth. Tied after 10. Mini-run puts us up. They come back. Down 2 at the half. They go on a run. Down 12 with 10 left. Not how we wanted to start conf. play.

21, 10, 4 for Bond, 18, 3, 4 for King, 16, 6 for Maer. They shot 51.6%, we shot 40.7%. That, 19 TOs, and getting beat in the paint caused the loss. Bench play was a huge factor, 40, 9, 5 for them, 26, 2 for us. Ouch! +9 on the boards but it wasn't enough.

6-8, 1-0 Hartford is here next. Again in this game we should have a big edge on the boards, and maybe in outside play. We'll see.

Another new year in space. We launched in April of 2022 so we've been here awhile and will be here a LOT longer.

The strategy of providing lots of sports and games, with tournaments like the one in poker, and others in pool, table tennis, other card games, other athletic events, providing live entertainment- all of that is keeping the crew happy and engaged. There's no much to see and practically nothing to discover so far from Saturn and its rings and moons, so all of this helps.
I do the "Space series," and take part in some of the others, but knowing I won't do very well. I'm okay at table tennis but there are MANY who are better. Same with pool. There aren't enough bridge players for a tourney.

[Wayne23]

1/5: 80-57. We score the first 10. Up 18 after 10. Up 11 at the half. Up 25 with 10 left. Easy one.

20, 11 for Heng, 14, 8, 5 for Maer, 16, 7 for Bond, 10, 5, 6 for King.

+23 RBs. We outshot them by a wide margin and controlled the paint.

At 4-11, 2-0 Albany. We feel we have a solid edge and they score only 61.1 per game.

I'm loving coaching at BU as the #1. I'm doing a lot of recruiting but am also deeply involved in just about every aspect of coaching this team. We're 7-4, which is better than any BU team has done in a long time.

[Wayne23]

1/9: 57-74. We fall behind early. Down 6 after 10. Down 18 at the half; we're just not playing good ball. Down 18 with 10 to play. We were awful. We let them score 13 more than their average and we never got the offense going.

17 for Bank, 12, 5, 4, 4 steals for Bond. None of the others did much of anything.

-11 RBs, 18 TOs. We shot 33.3% and they shot 54.9%. Three of our starters were in foul trouble all night. Not a good game. Our first two conference road games have been awful.

6-9, 1-1 Stony Brook is at our place. We seem to have a huge edge in rebounding, and if we actually play we're the better team. Let's see what happens.

We're still traveling through space. There not a lot here. Saturn is getting closer and appearing larger in unmagnified views, but we're still more than 8 months away.

[Wayne23]

1/12: 82-69. Up 13 after 10. Up 19 at the half. Up 15 with 10 to go. Seems like we have the home team and the road team. The home team is pretty good!

19, 11 for Heng, 14, 7 for Bond, 13, 6 for Wall.

+6 RBs, 10 TOs. We won this one inside and at the line.

At 8-8, 1-2 UMBC. And yet again we seem to have very big edge on the boards and in scoring but we haven't shown we can win on the road in the AEC.

The "Space Series of Poker for January starts tomorrow.

1/13: Well that was quick. I went out on the first hand. I went all in on three kings and lost to a straight. Too bad, this is fun when you last awhile. Oh well.

[Wayne23]

1/16: 90-96 in OT; discouraging. Early lead. They cam back. Down 3 after 10. Down 5 at the half. Up 5 with 10 left. OT. We threw this one away late in regulation and in OT.

23, 6 for Bank, 14, 3, 9, 3 for King.

+13 RBs. We lost it at the line, -16. Both Heng and Wall fouled out.

6-11, 1-3 New Hampshire comes to town. This should be easy. Given that it's at home...

Just for the record I love being a basketball coach. I love it less when my guys aren't doing the things they've been taught, or when we lose a close game, or at some other times. But I always love it at least some. It really is a form of teaching, and almost a form of parenting at the college level. I don't just lead practices and coach games. I attend most study halls, I carefully monitor grades, I make it my business to know if a player is having any personal, family, or romantic relationship issues, and alert the staff. We have psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers... on call, but often the kid just needs time and caring from the member of the coaching staff, or at times the tutoring staff he has bonded with. By mid-freshman year almost all of them bond with one of us and we discuss this in staff meetings, or with the academic support staff in our meetings with them. We acknowledge that the kid has chosen one of us (informally), and we step up and let it be known we're on it.

We eat with the kids when we're on the road, and sometimes in the school cafeteria. We are with them and they are with us for most of the day, and for most of the year, and for four years at the non-elite schools where kids all but never go pro early.

[Wayne23]

1/19: 75-58. Early lead. Up 4 after 10. Up 15 at the half. Up 20 with 10 to play. We were in control all the way.

25, 10 for Heng, 15, 7, 5 for Maer. 11, 11 for Bond.

+5 RBs, 12 TOs to 18. Shooting pct. was about the same but we were 19-25 from the line to their 5-10.

At 7-13, 2-5 Binghamton next. Their in last place and we don't yet have a road win in the AEC. On paper we're far better but it's a road game. They are stronger outside than in.

[Wayne23]

1/26: 74-65. Tied after 10. Down 7 at the break. Up 7 with 10 to go after a nice run. At last a road win!

16, 8 for Bond, 16, 6 for Heng, 13, 6, 3 for Wall. +5 RBs, only 8 TOs.

We definitely won this one inside, +28 in the paint, and we took 22 more shots.

8-12, 3-4 Maine visits next. This is a team we should beat, especially inside.

Euf Miki hurt his leg. Out for a week.

A very near miss. A small rock, less than a meter in diameter, was missed by the computers until it was very close to us and headed right for the middle of the ship. We went into what we informally call "red alert" mode. That's not what it's called but it's what most people on board call it. Anyway, when that alarm sounds you have ten seconds to find something to hold tight to, or, if you're lucky, to strap your self into. Then the ship is going to make some serious changes of course. There's a doomsday alarm which means you have 2 seconds. That hasn't happened yet but if it ever does there will be a LOT of injuries.

So we got the "red alert" and ten seconds later the ship went straight down to avoid the rock. It was almost 100% successful but not quite. The rock brushed against the aft part of the ship but did no more than scratch and dent the hull in that area. Even a tiny bit closer and there would likely have been a hull breach, and everyone in that part of the ship would have been killed. This time, no one was.

There were 18 injuries, none of them life threatening but some of them serious. We dodged a bullet.

After everything was back to normal we sent a shuttle to examine the rock. It turns out it was very much atypical, made of rare metals, none of which exist on Earth, and none of them at all magnetic and only barely perceptible under normal light. Not dark matter, of course, but a very nonreflective, nonmagnetic rock. That's why the ship's instruments didn't pick it up until it was so close to us.

Adjustments have been made which will make this type of rock easier to detect more quickly and from a greater distance. It's possible this was a one of a kind event but there's no way to know. It may be that this kind of rock occurs regularly in this sector of space. We'll find out over time.