Go GDUB
So, ranked #6 in the country my alma mater, George Washington is really flourishing. What's amazing is I remember a time where you couldn't pay someone to go to the Smith Center for a game.
"Hey, you guys want to go to the game?"
-"Nah, there's a really interesting special on the history lawn fertilizer"
-"I just had Pizza-Pasta and I really can't move now."
-"I know the Smith Center is across the street and all, but making this garbage castle in the living room is just too much fun right now."
-"Isn't basketball season over?"
Excuse after excuse after excuse. Freshman year we saw the downfall of SirValiant Brown, who the year before wowed the nation with a 29 point scoring average (2nd place overall...and he was a freshman). Yep, that year the team didn't break .500. Thus ended the Penders era, which ushered in the Hobbs era. Hobbs, a UConn recruit master, brought in a few players along with a new staff. We, as students, living in a city, with hundreds...literally hundreds of other things to do, paid little attention. Until now.
The team hasn't been this good in years! Like 70 years!! A record of 22-1...undefeated in the A-10...longest win streak in the nation (14)...longest win streak in school history...#6 in the nation...#1 in the DC-MD-VA area. People are writing about us. I'm writing about us. We're on ESPN. We're regularly in the WaPo...and not because one of our players sexually assualted a prostitute.
Will this streak continue? If GW wins out the rest of their season (another 4 games) they will finish 26-1. Only seven teams since 1999 have finished the season with one loss. Truly amazing. It's possible too. LaSalle (17-7, 9-4 A-10); Charlotte (16-9, 9-3 A-10) will be tests for this team. With that said, GW/Fordham is 2/25. I'll be in the Bronx for this one. If you're there...join me.
"Hey, you guys want to go to the game?"
-"Nah, there's a really interesting special on the history lawn fertilizer"
-"I just had Pizza-Pasta and I really can't move now."
-"I know the Smith Center is across the street and all, but making this garbage castle in the living room is just too much fun right now."
-"Isn't basketball season over?"
Excuse after excuse after excuse. Freshman year we saw the downfall of SirValiant Brown, who the year before wowed the nation with a 29 point scoring average (2nd place overall...and he was a freshman). Yep, that year the team didn't break .500. Thus ended the Penders era, which ushered in the Hobbs era. Hobbs, a UConn recruit master, brought in a few players along with a new staff. We, as students, living in a city, with hundreds...literally hundreds of other things to do, paid little attention. Until now.
The team hasn't been this good in years! Like 70 years!! A record of 22-1...undefeated in the A-10...longest win streak in the nation (14)...longest win streak in school history...#6 in the nation...#1 in the DC-MD-VA area. People are writing about us. I'm writing about us. We're on ESPN. We're regularly in the WaPo...and not because one of our players sexually assualted a prostitute.
Will this streak continue? If GW wins out the rest of their season (another 4 games) they will finish 26-1. Only seven teams since 1999 have finished the season with one loss. Truly amazing. It's possible too. LaSalle (17-7, 9-4 A-10); Charlotte (16-9, 9-3 A-10) will be tests for this team. With that said, GW/Fordham is 2/25. I'll be in the Bronx for this one. If you're there...join me.
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