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Sure is nice to have good coverage. I have been a Jacks fan for thirty plus years, and we have never had someone who covered us as well as Terry has.
5 days, 5 states, 2,788 miles, 2 games, 1 memorable trip
By Terry Vandrovec
tvandrovec@argusleader.com
Published: March 7, 2007
Editor's Note: Argus Leader sports writer Terry Vandrovec traveled with the SDSU women's basketball team on its final road trip of the regular season, recording the team's ups and downs as it tried to earn a berth in the WNIT.
Through the first four days of a five-day trip, the South Dakota State women's basketball team had been both unflappable and unimpressed.
They ignored the fact that their plane needed a snow blowing escort and a coating of green and red goop - deicing fluid - to get out of Sioux Falls.
They shrugged off an unremarkable performance at IPFW, focusing solely on the victory.
They made themselves at home in Chicago, lounging on the floor like O'Hare airport was the family living room, and sat on a still baggage claim carousel in Newark, N.J., displaying almost indifference to arriving in a city that could swallow all of their hometowns combined. Because they traveled standby, their adidas-issue baggage didn't arrive for another 15 hours, forcing them to raid their hotel's stock of complementary toiletries.
They had breakfast in a franchised pancake house near the projects, went to a gym where they'd never been and, without the benefit of a walkthrough or a shootaround, won the regular-season finale at New Jersey Tech by 25.
Only then, with the last regular-season road trip of their final year as an NCAA Division I Independent winding down, their mission accomplished, they unwound, acted like, well, college kids.
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5 days, 5 states, 2,788 miles, 2 games, 1 memorable trip
By Terry Vandrovec
tvandrovec@argusleader.com
Published: March 7, 2007
Editor's Note: Argus Leader sports writer Terry Vandrovec traveled with the SDSU women's basketball team on its final road trip of the regular season, recording the team's ups and downs as it tried to earn a berth in the WNIT.
Through the first four days of a five-day trip, the South Dakota State women's basketball team had been both unflappable and unimpressed.
They ignored the fact that their plane needed a snow blowing escort and a coating of green and red goop - deicing fluid - to get out of Sioux Falls.
They shrugged off an unremarkable performance at IPFW, focusing solely on the victory.
They made themselves at home in Chicago, lounging on the floor like O'Hare airport was the family living room, and sat on a still baggage claim carousel in Newark, N.J., displaying almost indifference to arriving in a city that could swallow all of their hometowns combined. Because they traveled standby, their adidas-issue baggage didn't arrive for another 15 hours, forcing them to raid their hotel's stock of complementary toiletries.
They had breakfast in a franchised pancake house near the projects, went to a gym where they'd never been and, without the benefit of a walkthrough or a shootaround, won the regular-season finale at New Jersey Tech by 25.
Only then, with the last regular-season road trip of their final year as an NCAA Division I Independent winding down, their mission accomplished, they unwound, acted like, well, college kids.
Read More:
http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs...703070326/1002
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