Head Coach Chris Kilsmeier (spelling unknown) told reporters before the game: "We're not just happy to be here. We're here to win it. We don't want to be the Patriots."
Well, nobody else has the news yet, so you'll hear it from me first. We're not the Patriots. We won 68-54.
THE HPU LADY JACKETS ARE THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!!!
And for those of you who think I'm yelling: The HPU Yellow Jackets are the national champions!!!
Sting'm Jackets!
This news is so fresh, I don't even have a link yet. The #2 Howard Payne Lady Jackets have defeated #1 Hope Flying Dutch by a score of 53-49. This, of course, only means that HPU gets into the Final Four (I don't get it either--how could they possibly let the two best teams (and the only remaining undefeated basketball teams in the world) play each other in the quarterfinals?), but we're now the top-ranked team in the NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Championship Tournament. The polls should have kept as at #1 all season long instead of just that one week.
Sting'm Lady Jackets!
I've seen some blowouts in my day, but this is just plain insane. The Lady Jackets smashed debilitated paralyzed vanquished conquered erased the Lady Bull Dogs of Texas Lutheran 102-22, including a 46-2 run to start the second half. All-American Meia Daniels, one of the team leaders, could have beaten TLU on her own, scoring 23 points. Sting'm Jackets. Dang.
For those of keeping track, that puts HPU at #2 in the nation, 10-0 in the American Southwest Conference and 14-0 overall. Sting'm Jackets indeed.
I don't often get the chance to root for my alma mater against my classmates' alma maters, so I take what I can get. Last night, the Lady Jackets pounded the Lady Comets (?) of the University of Texas at Dallas, 83-40 in American Southwest Conference women's basketball action. Now if only we could climb higher than #3 . . .
