End of the Road

Well as many of you know I have been pretty involved and busy with my basketball season. As of last night my basketball season is over with. This Monday was the start to the State playoffs. Monday we played UW-Marshfield which we have played two other times this season already and have beaten them every time. Before the game started their coach told ours that these girls already decided they were winning this game. Well after warmups that Monday we started out playing amazing! We were all playing like a team and all of our shots were falling. We got up to about a 15 point lead and then by halftime we were still up by 10 points. However, after we came out at halftime it was a whole different game. None of our shots were falling and our team kind of fell apart. This was not good because Marshfield had come out refreshed and ready to kick butt! All of their shots were falling and they chipped away at our lead for the next twenty minutes. With only a couple minutes left they were only down by a few baskets now. The score kept going back and forth and eventually they were only down by two points. Well our defense ended up picking us up for the lack of our offense we were playing. We ended up winning that game and was headed for Madison on Wednesday to play to go to State. At our shoot around on Tuesday, to prepare for our next game, our coach told us he had a surprise for us and we were to meet at the Coleman Center. Everyone was trying to figure out what our surprise could be but everyone was stumped. After waiting in the hall for a while a lady came out and told us we were getting massages by the students here. These massages were amazing and a fun way to have a little team bonding before our game. Well Wednesday comes and we leave in the afternoon to head off to Madison for our big game. Now Madison is pretty good and ranked pretty high up in the nation. We knew this was going to be a hard game to win but we had to have positive thoughts going into it. Right away Madison took a lead and kept us to two points for more than ten minutes into the first half. It was a hard fought game but we ended up losing which put an end to our long battle of a season. I am pretty pleased with how the season turned out and am excited for next year already!