It's officially my favorite time of year.  BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT time!!!  Is anything more exciting?  AND Purdue won the Big Ten Tournament yesterday.  It's even more fun when you have a dog in the fight, ya know!  Thursday starts the opening round of the NCAA tourney and the past two weekends we've watched our town's High School team compete in the state tourney.  Fun stuff!!!  Grant is becoming a little crazy about it too.  He's even gone so far as to be very choosy about what clothes he wears most days.  Usually he only wants to wear basketball clothes like shorts and cut off T's or his favorite nylon sweat pants that he says look like warm up pants.  It's so cute and I can appreciate a good choice in cool athletic clothes. 
Anyway, many people I know (namely my uncle) have exclaimed their displeasure in the way the HS state tourney is handled these days... with the four class system.  They say it has taken a lot of the excitement out of tourney time.  And I understand that it has... it certainly has at my old high school from what I understand.  However, NOT in this neck of the woods.  The excitement around here is INSANE and I LOVE IT!!!!!  The quality bball programs in this part of the state are plentiful and our town's team is no exception.  We've enjoyed five years now of high quality teams with high profile players not to mention a couple of State Championships thrown in for good measure.  We've had five kids go on to play Div I ball since we moved here just 8 yrs ago with a definite sixth one on his way.  The sectional and regional sites down here are amazing...  full of rivalries just like the old days. 

To prove how exciting it is and to show you how our little corner of the state is still very much alive with hoosier hysteria... check out this video from Saturday morning's regional semi-finals at the hatchet house (yes it's our high school's gym... one of the largest HS gyms in the country so we hear).  MAKE SURE YOU HAVE YOUR SOUND UP!!!





A couple pictures of the boys at the game... Grant doesn't look very happy in his picture... he was irritated that I had the camera in his face while he was trying to watch the teams warm up before the game.