Patterico's Pontifications

3/28/2008

Davidson Madness (Updated)

Filed under: Sports — DRJ @ 4:56 pm



[Guest post by DRJ]

Davidson is up 15 on Wisconsin with 9 minutes to go in the first round of the Sweet 16. I don’t know who will win but Davidson is the highlight of the tournament.

To top it off, the Davidson Trustees paid to send any student who wanted to go to the tournament, including free bus, hotel and tickets. What’s even more impressive is that the $100,000 cost is being paid by the Trustees individually.

You gotta love that.

UPDATE: Davidson beat Wisconsin 73-56. How sweet it is!

— DRJ

10 Responses to “Davidson Madness (Updated)”

  1. Here’s another item for the feel good sports file.

    The article doesn’t make this clear, but if my memory is correct, Conine is the only player who
    1) was on both of the Marlin’s World Series teams
    and
    2) was the only original Marlins player to be part of either World Series teams

    Mike Lowell is the only other Marlins player who can claim two World Series wins, but only one as a Marlin (Bosox of course being the other).

    kishnevi (d50358)

  2. As for the Davidson trustees paying — it helps that Davidson has only 700 students. Its really a small high school.

    WLS (68fd1f)

  3. By my count, there are 48 Trustees of Davidson College. That’s $2100 apiece and it may not be deductible. I think that’s pretty impressive, especially on such short notice.

    DRJ (a431ca)

  4. 1,700 students.

    Not all could be accommodated. Not enuff tix. Not enuff buses/transpo.

    This is a BoT that gets it. They should win an ESPY, at the least.

    Announcers said that average attendance at Davidson home games included 75% of the student body. Very impressive, imo.

    Ed (4d72af)

  5. now do a post about xavier while they’re still alive, they play ucla tomorrow. tell us where exactly xavier is, and whether it’s “hah-vi-er” or “ecks-ay-vi-er”, i’ve heard it both ways. congrats on texas beating stanford.

    assistant devil's advocate (71f0d0)

  6. At costs of about 40k per year to attend, its the least they could do for the students 🙂

    All kidding aside, it was a great way for the Trustees to help the kids out.

    Verlin Martin (899dce)

  7. Davidson’s Stephen Curry so far has been the must-see player of the tournament…who would have thought he would drop 33 points on Wisconsin’s tough D?

    Paul (b8f307)

  8. Mike Lowell is the only other Marlins player who can claim two World Series wins, but only one as a Marlin (Bosox of course being the other).

    Josh Beckett, kishnevi.

    And regarding Davidson, it is a super cool move on the part of the administration and trustees. WLS is right, however, that it is only practical because Davidson is a relatively small school. Can you imagine the University of Texas doing this for its 50,000+ students?

    JVW (0b3fa7)

  9. How could I forget Beckett?

    kishnevi (7dd83d)

  10. So, did the Trustees pony up to keep the students there for tomorrow’s game?

    Greg (4c92bd)


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