2014 BCM State Basketball Tournament - Part II

     So the BCM basketball tournament was this weekend, in Edmond, at UCO. And since I wrote a recap of last year's(which was actually in March, due to scheduling quirks) and equal parts wanting to know what was happening and let other folks not able to attend know what was going on, I had Elizabeth text me updates to keep track of our teams' progress. Stephen, too. And then I posted those updates on the SWAT Facebook page.

     With Bob and Deb busy with everything else going on, the coaching duties fell to Daniel P., Stephen and Bucky. The girls had Carra, Caitlyn, Jocelyn and Mariah back from March's team, with Haley A. and a couple girls I don't know playing as well, and besides Jordan and Mark, I have no idea who the guys on our team were. Probably Sean was there.
     Elizabeth and Annie were there as fans, too, plus a handful of various players' relatives.
   
     We got earlier game time-slots than in March, both the guys and girls were finished by 10 p.m Friday night. The girls lost a close one to host UCO thanks to some hometown officiating, but being Thunder fans, we all know all about that and how to deal with it. (Come close to flipping out at the refs, then complain on Twitter afterwards.) But the guys won their game against Rose State College, so that was something.

     In the morning the guys hit an Edmond IHOP for breakfast while the girls headed to the gym for a 9:30 a.m. contest. NSU came out on top 34-22, putting everyone in good spirits. And the guys beat TU, so that helped, too. Because with the schedule in disarray, nobody was quite sure of what was going on, as far as when what games would be played. It was a bit of a mess.

     But the girls had their third-place game at around 1 p.m., while the guys got their game going somewhere around 2 p.m. NSU trailed early on, but they hung in there and eventually pulled out a win for third place. The guys faced Cameron and the refs. It was a hard-fought battle most of the way through, seesawing back and forth, but in the end the RiverHawks came up on the agonizingly frustrated wrong side of a 41-40 score. The calls still sucked. So it was pretty much exactly a Thunder game, except thankfully I don't think anybody got hurt.

     So overall it didn't go quite as well as we'd hoped, but third and second are still pretty good. Our teams played hard and stayed classy, representing our group, our leaders and school well. It was a worthwhile ride and they gave it everything they had. I'm really proud of our guys and girls, wished I could have been there in person. #BCMRiverHawksRule

     Basketball-related tweets -
Elizabeth - "NSU is gonna dominate this basketball tournament."
Mark - "Ladies and gentlemen, it's game day."
Bucky - "My soccer mom yelling voice is just extremely impressive."
Daniel - "I'm the Nick Saban of women's BCM basketball."
Bucky again - "Shoutout to Stephen and Jordan for holding me back for holding me back on the bench tonight to keep me from trying to fight a grown man."
Elizabeth again - "Super proud of my RiverHawks for playing hard and keeping it classy out there tonight."
Annie - "Shoutout to all the BCM basketball players. You guys are awesome.It's been a great weekend."