Archive for November 17th, 2008

9:10 AM: We woke up this morning at 8:15 to get breakfast and now I’m back in my room watching some SportsCenter.  We’re leaving at 9:40 for our shootaround.  I don’t know if our coaches picked a 10:00 AM shootaround or if that was just the time slot Charleston Southern gave us. I do know that 8:15 is earlier than I have to wake up on days that I have class.

1:00 PM: We had a good shootaround. Charleston Southern uses Spalding balls instead of the Nike balls that Furman, and the majority of teams we play use. Its not really a big deal, but some guys hate using the Spalding balls cause they have a tendency to get slippery. We went over a few plays to make sure everybody is on the same page. Now we’re probably going to go to the mall to kill some time. Its good to get out and about instead of lounging around the hotel all day long.

4:30 PM: We just finished our pregame meal and now we’re hanging out in our hotel rooms. The food we ordered was delivered 20 minutes late but it was ok because we went over Charleston Southern’s personnel again. I guess there is a women’s game before ours tonight so our game will probably end up starting at 7:45. We are only going to have 30 minutes on the floor to warm up before we play. Normally we warm up for about 75 minutes on the floor with a two 7-10 minute breaks thrown in. I usually can’t wait to play so I’m looking forward to a shorter warm up. This should be a good game tonight. I played with Charleston Southern’s PG, Tovi Bailey, in an All-Star game after our senior year of high school. The West team included me Tovi (Charleston Southern), Bryson Barnes (Furman), Charles Corbin (Winthrop), Trevor Gaskins (Ole Miss), Chris Barnes (UGA), Jahaziel Howard (UCF), and myself. We went up against and lost to the East which included Kevin Anderson (Richmond), Zach Graham (Ole Miss), Lance Storrs (Georgia Tech), Jeremy Price (UGA), Terrell Bell (Virginia Tech), Andrew Goudelock (College of Charleston), Marshon Brooks (Providence), Jeremy Simmons (College of Charleston), and Zac Swansey (UGA).