Wednesday, March 16, 2005
In a battle of “Napoleon Dynamite”-named teams, Your Mom Goes to College will find itself doomed to relive this game in front of a camcorder for the next 20 years.
The Ligers proved why they were dominant during the regular season and claimed the CoRec title with a 91-53 victory against Your Mom Goes to College last night.
Unlike the men’s and women’s finals, the referees were able to sit back and enjoy the show in this one. The teams spread the field and created plenty of shots with a fast-paced style of play.
By halftime, the Ligers were already well on their way to victory with a 43-23 lead.
“We just spread the ball around and made sure everybody got some shots,” Grant Creighton, Englewood, Colo., senior, said.
Creighton was able to dunk the ball in the first half and had the ball swatted away on a similar attempt in the second half.
During the entire season, the Ligers outscored their competition by a combined 630-326.
In the second half, Ellie Larson, Westwood junior, led her team on a 15-2 scoring run in just 2 minutes of continuous play.
“I give credit to the boys,” Larson said. “They do a great job of getting rebounds and passing us the ball.”
In CoRec basketball, girls’ baskets count one point more than boys’ baskets.
“The girls have done a great job making their shots,” Creighton said. “They probably score half of our points.”
That gave the Ligers an advantage: Of the seven team members at the game, four were girls.
For Your Mom Goes to College, only two of the seven players were female, and they stayed on the court for the entire game.
It was the first year playing together for the Ligers, and it will most likely be the last as a number of players on the team are seniors. Most team members are enrolled in the School of Business, and the men of the group play under the business-inspired name “Teloitte & Douche, L.L.P.”
“We are all good friends, so we know each other’s style,” Creighton said. Both teams were 7-0 going into the game. For Your Mom Goes to College, it was the third game in the past two days.
The Ligers didn’t have to sweat out a finish at any point during the tournament. They won every game by at least 10 points.
They enjoyed playing this game in Allen Fieldhouse. The wide-open space played into their style of spreading the field and outrunning the competition.
“It was a lot harder to get across the court,” Larson said. “Everything seemed to be farther away.”
If the Ligers were tired, they did not show it on the court. They continued to run the length of the court, even in the final minutes.
As the clock would down, the crowd began the “Rock Chalk, Jayhawk” chant for the Ligers.
The remaining intramural finals will be played at 7 tonight in Allen Fieldhouse.
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