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Bluenotes Short Riff – 18 November 2015

On By @gtmoblueIn college basketball 365
Short Riff
Stay focused…Stay hungry!

Courtesy: Creighton Athletics
Lots going on.  http://gocreighton.com/index.aspx

WVB won the BE Regular season BE Championship and close the season at G’twn on the 20th.
MSoc lost the RS and the BET to G’twn.  The 17-3 Jays are a 12 seed in the NCAA Soccer Tourney.
WBB is off to a quick 2-0 start. Play Drake on the 24th.
XC Kenyon and Ogg get XC recognition.  XC Men 6th, women 7th at BE Championships.  XC Women 15th, Men 26th at NCAA Regional Meet.
Tennis  Lang, Koca, and Dippel advance in the ITA Regionals.
Rowing  Rowers finish 7th at WCC Championships.  Eight Bluejays on the WCC Rowing All-Academic Team.
Golf fall season concluded.
MBB  Jays at #14 Indiana tomorrow – 19 Nov 2015.  Teams appear evenly matched, neither team is good defensively, but CU is a bit longer, a bit better on D.  Everyone has UI winning…except gtmo.
Jays have played better early competition, are not intimidated by large crowds, and have more depth than UI.  Jays keep the pace and tempo high, shoot better, and win 92-77 over Indiana.

2015-16 Previews:  WBR MBB player bios. www.whiteandbluereview.com  
Great profiles by the WBR team.



Rush the Court – BE Previews- 3 section preview on the conference.  Jays in the also ran section. 
http://rushthecourt.net/2015/11/09/big-east-season-preview-the-outsiders-7-10/


NCAA;  Jays among group of five set to bounce back to the Dance in 2015. 
http://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2015-11-11/college-basketball-5-teams-bound-bounce-back?cid=ncaammsocial_tw_sf15177938 

Omaha World Herald – Bunch of new articles, including 1 on the Late Fr Schlegel.
http://www.omaha.com/creighton/

New 2015-16 WBR Viewers Guide…
http://whiteandbluereview.com/creighton-mens-basketball-2015-16-viewing-guide/

A couple of new articles on BECB… Article on the W over UTSA. The G’twn loss to UMD.

A glance back… Now Onward.

On By @gtmoblueIn college basketball 365
Alas, Oh the Times…they are a changin’
Gotta go back sometimes…and touch the stones.
Know where you come from, in order to get to where you want to go.
 
 
 
 
 
 
I must have had a (another) brain lapse.  I went looking for some of the old sports sites I used to browse, back in the day (early to late 2000’s).  Alas, many of them are no more.  Chief among the missing is the Mid-Majority…Kyle Whelliston’s site.  The Mid-Majority was an institution over its’ 10 year run, being many things to the small, the obscure, and the underestimated conferences and universities that are the “other 26” conferences.  And possibly most well-known for his Articles on “The Red Line” in college basketball.  Mr. Whelliston closed down shop in March of 2014. 
 

“We’ve lost the precious feeling of scarcity. With everything so available everywhere anytime we want, and so easily replicable, anticipation and appreciation are the primary casualties. In digital 2014, there are so few remaining opportunities to have a tiny analog moment all your own, to discover something small, to place and protect it in your heart. Love carries with it an undercurrent of pain. Your beloved might disappear forever, so you must cherish it.”

“Our final act is to make ourselves scarce.”   –  Kyle Whelliston

        

 
Here is a link to one of his articles…  “You have to see the MVC in person.”
 
 
 
 
 
 
I miss Kyle.  I miss the Mid-Majority.  I miss the Missouri Valley Conference, and I am nostalgic irt our many historic past victories and glory. 

No, I do not wish to return, nor to regress, or to live in the past.  However, our history “is what it is” and I recognize the impacts and import of who we were, of who we have been, in the making of who we are today. 

 
In moving ahead in this latest Big East chapter of Creighton Basketball…let us not forget where we came from.  Let us not forget the history, tradition, and legacy that has helped shape Creighton (us) into who we are today.  Reach back every now and then – to touch our historic stones – to remind us of how we crossed over our Jordan.  Reach back and touch the stones to recharge our energies, whilst forging onward to new victories, new glorys, new achievements ahead. 
 
Love ya Creighton University.  Love ya Creighton Bluejays.  Let us recharge our energies while knowing that what lies ahead of us is greater than what we have left behind. 
Creighton’s Best…is yet to come! 
Let’s go Blue!
 
gtmo