BEN DAVIS
Region VI is rolling at Koch Arena with today’s women’s games going — here’s a quick and easy link to the KJCCC Web site, where you can follow all the games via live stats and scoring, so that’s nice. They’re only a couple of games in, but we’ve got Patrick Sheltra out there covering all the goodness that is Koch Arena and JuCo basketball … I remember going to see the 93-94 NJCAA champion Hutch team beat Coffeyville in the Region VI title game at Henry Levitt Arena (RIP). That Blue Dragon team featured future Purdue star Roy Hairston, Arizona (and former KU and Florida) star Ben Davis, who went on to play for the Suns and the Knicks …. and Wichita Northwest product and current Wichita North girls coach Dietric Sanders! Deke’s the man. I played h.s. ball at NW and our coach, Charles Williams, used to take us to watch a lot of Deke’s games that year (he was the sixth man), so we got to be around those guys quite a bit and they were always super-cool. And they smashed one of the backboards at the aforementioned HLA after they won (celebratory hanging on the rim) … and Steve McClain was cool with it.
DEANDRE EGGINS
As far as the MIAA tourney — there were a couple of big upsets in the men’s quarterfinals, mainly No. 1 seed Southwest Baptist — minus MIAA MVP Matt Rogers — losing to Missouri Western. Fort Hays State is in the semifinals, too, thanks to a big game from Scott City product Tim Peintner (20 points). Washburn pulled off the minor upset of Emporia State with big games from DI transfers DeAndre Eggins and Lekheythan (NOT Key-Key) Malone. I’ve thought the Ichabods underperformed all year … believe that they can win this tournament, if their hearts are in it. Which is a big IF.
JARAY MATHEWS
JAKE DARBY
Mathews & Darby
Kind of cool when you put the two names together — I feel like I should go buy a suit from them or something.
Newman men’s basketball players Jaray Mathews, a junior, and freshman Jake Darby picked up some hardware from the Heartland Conference as Mathews was named the league’s newcomer of the year and Darby was the co-freshman of the year. Here’s the release from Newman SID Brian Petrotta.
On a separate note …
It’s been awhile since I’ve been as hyped to see a movie as I was for Watchmen — grew up loving the graphic novel, the characters, the whole mythology. So when Zack Snyder (300) said he was going to direct it, it was like this fanboy’s dream come true. The trailers looked sick. The marketing was perfect. But the movie sucked. I saw it this afternoon. It was tedious, bloated, overwrought. And they changed the ending. It was bad. Like, in some parts, Batman and Robin bad.
BROKE MY HEART
I’m out.
-TA