[Crafter Artisan]

I was also at the game, and if you heard a solitary voice yowling from the dark, remote recesses of the upper rind of section 14, or saw a figure in red there, that was Crafter Artisan acting like a maniac.

UW's arena showed flashes of the atmosphere it could hold, but the game mostly had a half-sour dill pickle ambience to it.  (That's the Jew in me speaking......) There was more than one time when it seemed like I had the loudest voice on the whole side where the big purple W looks upside down, which had me thinking, "Okay fine, if it comes to that I'll win this game for Stanford all by myself."

We were horn-locked with the Dawgs for all of the first half and a lot of the second, when neither team could go up by more than 4 points, and I could see Hopkins austerely coaching his huddle at one point near the end of the first half.  When the Cardinal ran back onto the floor at the end of halftime I was surprised to not hear a single boo, especially in light of the way we came back on them and started their downward slide earlier in the season.  I know it's hard to stay enthusiastic when you've lost eight straight games, but dang.

We rolled with some hard punches, including several nasty dunks and a four-point play, before our winning run.  Daejon Davis's one-handed throwdown dunk that made it 57-51 was the decider that got it going.

Next up the Cougs.  They've been tough at home, last night notwithstanding, so can't take them lightly.

[Crafter Artisan]

I was also at the game, and if you heard a solitary voice yowling from the dark, remote recesses of the upper rind of section 14, or saw a figure in red there, that was Crafter Artisan acting like a maniac.

UW's arena showed flashes of the atmosphere it could hold, but the game mostly had a half-sour dill pickle ambience to it.  (That's the Jew in me speaking......) There was more than one time when it seemed like I had the loudest voice on the whole side where the big purple W looks upside down, which had me thinking, "Okay fine, if it comes to that I'll win this game for Stanford all by myself."

We were horn-locked with the Dawgs for all of the first half and a lot of the second, when neither team could go up by more than 4 points, and I could see Hopkins austerely coaching his huddle at one point near the end of the first half.  When the Cardinal ran back onto the floor at the end of halftime I was surprised to not hear a single boo, especially in light of the way we came back on them and started their downward slide earlier in the season.  I know it's hard to stay enthusiastic when you've lost eight straight games, but dang.

We rolled with some hard punches, including several nasty dunks and a four-point play, before our winning run.  Daejon Davis's one-handed throwdown dunk that made it 57-51 was the decider that got it going.

Next up the Cougs.  They've been tough at home, last night notwithstanding, so can't take them lightly.