[76lsjumb]

It was a great game and even though the crowd was small that was the loudest I heard Maples for a men's game all year. 

Exactly right, because the folks who show up on a late Monday night for a post-season NIT game against Ill. State are the ones who care.  Moreover [despite the best efforts of the ticket office], we all [for the most part] manage to get concentrated down in the lower sections [i.e., by the court], so the enthusiasm and noise is intensified.  I'd bet most of the same folks are there throughout the season, but are dispersed throughout the pavilion so that the vast wasteland of prime seats now covered by the "seat license" policy can remain sacrosanct [and empty].  Strange thing...an empty courtside seat just doesn't seem to generate as much noise and enthusiasm as one containing a fan.  Perhaps Bowlsby can get someone in the Physics Dept to figure out why...

And, wonder of wonders, everyone on the old folks' [i.e., my] side actually responded to the Sixth Man "On Your Feet!" cheer at the end of the game by...standing up!  :o  for the last 35 seconds of regulation!  That has got to be a record for a Stanford B'ball crowd over the past several years...

Go Card!

[76lsjumb]

It was a great game and even though the crowd was small that was the loudest I heard Maples for a men's game all year. 

Exactly right, because the folks who show up on a late Monday night for a post-season NIT game against Ill. State are the ones who care.  Moreover [despite the best efforts of the ticket office], we all [for the most part] manage to get concentrated down in the lower sections [i.e., by the court], so the enthusiasm and noise is intensified.  I'd bet most of the same folks are there throughout the season, but are dispersed throughout the pavilion so that the vast wasteland of prime seats now covered by the "seat license" policy can remain sacrosanct [and empty].  Strange thing...an empty courtside seat just doesn't seem to generate as much noise and enthusiasm as one containing a fan.  Perhaps Bowlsby can get someone in the Physics Dept to figure out why...

And, wonder of wonders, everyone on the old folks' [i.e., my] side actually responded to the Sixth Man "On Your Feet!" cheer at the end of the game by...standing up!  :o  for the last 35 seconds of regulation!  That has got to be a record for a Stanford B'ball crowd over the past several years...

Go Card!