by Wayne23 » Wed Jan 12, 2022 4:03 pm
12/26: Our last pre-conf game is with 7-5 Butler, here. They're having a down year. I don't think they can score enough points to beat us.
All of our students did well academically in the Fall semester.
12/27: Early lead. The lead goes to 20. 52-31 at the half. 18, 6 for Star and we seem well in control of this one.
85-62. A walk in the park. Double doubles for our two big guys again. I hope at least one of them stays rather than going to the pros. 22, 10 for Star, 14, 13, 4 blocks for Kean. PG Don John had 16, 4, 3.
+17 RBs, 12 TOs, +20 in the paint.
So I got together with Michelle, the librarian. We went to the Dog Lane Cafe, a great place, just off campus, walking distance, actually, and we walked there together. I had their excellent chili and a half sandwich- corned beef on rye. She had vegetable soup and a half tuna.
We talked very easily about a wide variety of things. I keep saying I'm one dimensional, the dimension being college basketball, but that subject never came up and I managed to hold my own in the conversation.
I have to confess that I am crazy about "nerd girls," and that term fits Michelle perfectly. She looks like a nerd- but in a VERY attractive way, dresses like a nerd, thinks like a nerd, talks like a nerd, has nerdy mannerisms... I am attracted to all of it.
We're going to a play on the weekend. It's a student production and Michelle knows one of the actors.
This is so not like me.
1/1/2022: We end pre-conf play at 10-2, #10, NET #1. +12.5 PPG, +12 RBs (#2 in RBs), -2.2 TOs (12.3, which is a little too high).
Del Star leads us in 4 categories, 24.2 PPG, 13.3 RBs, 2.8 blocks, 1.9 steals. Will Kean is 2nd in all 4, 15.6, 9.3, 1.2, 1.1. Ry Wink gets 4.7 assists and Don John gets 4.3. No changes to the lineup anticipated.
We went to the show last night. It was a comedy and it was really funny. We went out for a drink with Michelle's friend in the cast afterward. I have a crazy week but we're getting together for lunch in the Rome cafeteria on Wednesday.
I told Lu.
"Actually, Joe, I've been seeing someone for awhile. We've got a good friendship and I hope we keep it, but we weren't going anywhere romantically."
(Author's Note: My Dynasty Reports usually have a LOT of backstory. This one didn't so I'm adding some.)