All Hail to Garrett Lever

OK, this was an ugly game from a statistical point.  SU 60 Northern Illinois 48 - but SU held NIU to only 12 points the first half!  Both teams shot in and around the 30% percentile.  But a "W" is a "W" in the win column and the Redhawks showed once again that having a lead at the half they can pull out a "W."  Now 8-2.

Now lets really talk about the keys to the game for SU -

Yes, it's Mr. Defense, Garrett Lever who held the fifth nations scorer Xavier Silas to six points - What?  Get out! Yes, can you believe it? Silas averages 25.6 points a game, he only had six and spent most of the time on the sidelines.  Yep,  So I don't care if Lever averages 3 or so ppg.  I care he is a defensive, "you ain't going to get that ball in the hoop," and "don't try to pass that rock," monster.  Hello Isaiah Thomas of the purple regime at UW ( coming up next) get real!   SU traveled to the Midwest as the only team in the ESPN Bracket Buster series to do that out of their region and the only team as an Independent invited and won!  So suck it WCC!

Quote of the day from Donald Dollar (assistant coach and dad)  on ESPN Radio for next weeks game against the University of Washington "We are going to shock the world."

So it will take me a day or so to formalize an intelligent plan for the next blog coming up with the renewed rivalry and people are going to pack KeyArena (est 10,000) and this will be a big TEST for my beloved Redhawks, but you know what..."I believe we can 'shock' the world!"  Ask Oregon State, ask Virgina and ask that dude from the Washington Post - get out?  Really! Yes he really wrote about SU.  Redhawk Nation on the rise!

Come to Jimmy's on Broadway for the Cameron Dollar show on Monday Feb 21st at 8 pm or hear it on KIRO 710 AM ESPN with my buddies the Groz and Gary Hill then watch Capital Hill battle Mountlake on Tuesday in my house KeyArena Feb 22nd and yes, I will be wearing the Red Converse!  Goseattleu.com for tickets.