It's hard to believe my last blog entry was over a year ago at the CAA basketball tournament. I guess it took me going back to the Richmond Coliseum to remind me how much I like blogging.
Matt McGovern and I had a blast covering the tournament and decided to stay through the championship game before we knew JMU would be ousted on Saturday. Blogging throughout almost every game and talking to various coaching staffs was quite rewarding, despite the fact that we knew nobody was reading.
The Tourney
The tournament saw its championship played out on Sunday in the first semifinal game between Virginia Commonwealth and Old Dominion. The rivalry saw VCU pull away for a 61-53 win that trumped the competitiveness of the Monday's final with George Mason.
VCU guard Eric Maynor was ridiculous all tournament and made sure that sophomore forward Larry Sanders got involved early and often. Sanders took down two tournament records and tied a third — all of which were held by future Hall of Famer David Robinson.
Sanders scored 18 points, ripped down 20 rebounds and blocked seven shots. The 20 rebounds in a game nudged Robinson and three others, and his 40 rebounds for the tournament beat Robinson's mark of 39.
Maynor scored 25 points to go with eight assists. A ninth assist would have come on a lob to Sanders, but an offensive foul negated the powerful slam.
Non-basketball highlights from the tournament included meeting a number of accomplished columnists throughout the state (including Dave Fairbank and Paul Woody) and story time with JMU play-by-play announcer Mike Schikman.
I'm hoping to make this a daily thing again and probably more frequent than that.
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