March Madness-- I can't get enough of it

Right now in the US it is one of my favorite times. It is the lead up to march madness aka the NCAA bball mens tournament. Obviously one of my favorite times is the actual tournament.
Well yesterday I got my own bball experience. I will admit I have not attended many basketball games in person, but I am an avid tv watcher..haha
So here is the run down. Yesterday afternoon my school had a basketball and volleyball game against another school. The basketball court and the volleyball court are right next to each other. I would say over half of the school turned out to watch. The school we were playing was co-ed, so some of the fans that came to watch for them were boys, which only added to the madness. And let me tell you it was madness. Students screaming, singing, and gesturing, and the same goes for the coaches and the players.
The boys who were watching would try to get loud, but the girls from my school would have none of that.
One incident was brutal. The court the girls play on is blacktop, yet that did not stop either team from sliding and diving for that ball. Lets just say a lot of blood and skin was left on the court yesteday (luckily it rained at the end of the game so it was all cleaned off..haha). Well this one girl from the other team took one nasty fall and was a little slow to get up, and her one leg was clearly scraped up, and the same went for her 2 hands, and the side of her face. Now she stayed on the ground but the ref didn't call anything, and the opposing coach yelled what I would assume was not the nicest statement. The girl tried to get up, but she was in pain so it looked ackward as heck as she hobbled off the courst. Well what do you know, all the girls from my school totally start making fun of her and calling her out on her injury. I was like damn, these girls are harsh.haha.
But honestly overall it was a lot of fun to watch. Maybe not needless to say, but my school won. We destroyed them.
I know I didn't get to touch much on the volleyball, but my school won that too, but it was a little more evenly matched. An interesting thing I noted was how they keep score. So normally everyone that I know if they are going to make tallies they draw 4 vertical lines and then 1 line through those and that means a count of 5.. Well here they draw a cube and then a diaganol through the cube to signify 5, so for 25 points you get 5 cubes.interesting right. (well maybe not, but at the time it was interesting to me).
I also had fun talking with the girls about the words for different actions in the game because they only knew the french equivalents, like set, spike, dig, free throw, ect.
Overall a good day and I can't wait to watch the next game(lets just hope my school keeps winning).

On a side note-- I am the 'coach' for the soccer team. We were supposed to have our first game on wednesday but the other school ended up not having a team..which I must admit I was okay with, because although we have a team, we don't really. As in I have no idea who is on my team. On tuesday I had asked the sports cheif(a student who is in charge of all sports for the school) to make me a roster..haha.. desperate right. Wll either way once I know whats going on with my soccer team I am sure I will write about it. :)