Sweet Sixteen Championship

Mason County 57 - Holmes 48

Welcome to my post about the Northern Kentucky Invitational Tournament. They have all the good football teams, but now they want to dominate basketball, too. I used to work in northern Kentucky a lot, and I always felt like I was in Ohio when I got north of Georgetown. People talked funny, drove like maniacs, and insisted on telling me that I was #1 in the form of a hand signal. They drove fast but were awful nice when they passed me. I'd just tell them that I thought they were #1 right back.

I went to the game for two reasons. First, I love the way the Holmes Bulldogs play basketball. When they are clicking, I could watch them play all day. They play with grace and agility. The make a beautiful sport more so. The other reason? I wasn't going to deny my quest to see all fifteen games of the Sweet Sixteen.

Crazy? You're danged right. Going to the entire tournament is among the craziest things I've done in a long time. It will probably take a week to get the sound of basketball out of my head. The whistles. The horns. The bouncing of a ball on hardwood. The squeak of rubber soles. It's all in there.

I don't know what to write about a championship. I don't want to bore everyone with a game recap because that will be told in every newspaper from the banks of the Mississippi to the headwaters of the Tug.

Holmes played sloppy in the first and third quarters, and it cost them the game. I'm tired. I may write more about it in the next couple of days, but I'm going to bed and celebrating Easter on Sunday.

Happy Hoops!!