Diary

Robbie
Wizenberg

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February 14, 2005

Sweeping the weekend is a feeling I haven't experienced in way too long. Last weekend we beat two good teams that had beaten us convincingly when we played them at their respective gyms.

After the previous weekend's upsetting losses to Rochester and Carnegie, we were sitting at 3-6 in our conference with no chance of winning the league. At our next practice, Coach Zuver explained to us that because we did not have a chance of winning league anymore, we had two options. The first option was to roll over and concede the season as a failure and not even care how the remaining six games went. Our second option was to go out there, work hard and have fun with the rest of our games and end our season on a positive note.

I guess we really didn't have much of a choice as to which option we would choose because Coach told us that we were not going to throw away the season. These last two games have gotten everyone really excited because we are finally putting it all together and playing tough, hard basketball.

Friday night's game was really exciting. We had a ton of fans thanks to the school promoting the game the whole week. We played our most complete game of the year in front of our excited fans. It was later confirmed that we had 243 more fans than the Atlanta Hawks had at their Friday night game. After hearing about the size of our crowd, Antoine Walker demanded to be traded for Jeff Hall but Coach Zuver decided that they would have to give us more than Walker and guard Royal Ivey in exchange for Jeff Hall and Alex Ford-Carther.

Sunday's game against Chicago felt more like a Hawks game, but we had fewer celebrities. You never know what can happen at one of our games.

This weekend should be exciting. We are going to Boston and New York. I am thinking about hiring a security guard to watch Jeff and Shawn Bailey at all times to make sure they don't run away to try out for a Broadway show. Jeff and Shawn have an up and coming R&B group (name still being worked on). To all interested booking agents, please contact me regarding competitive rates for their performance.

Robbie Wizenberg is a junior from Los Angeles. He would love to answer e-mail questions from Emory recruits and fans.