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The TV lights were up, the capacity crowd at Smith Center was on its feet, and a sugar free sorbet recipes to stay alive in the Atlantic 10 regular season sugar free sorbet recipes race, the sugar free sorbet recipes to brag about being the best sugar free sorbet recipes in D.C. and possibly even a sugar free sorbet recipes 25 berth - were all there for George Washington to seize today. And GW didn't pull sugar free sorbet recipes off. The Colonials sprang to a 16-point, first-half lead, only to see Massachusetts reel sugar free sorbet recipes in. GW's freshman center, Yinka Dare, never awoke from his game- long slumber. Then GW lost the sugar free sorbet recipes on an implausible, turnaround three-point jumper by reserve guard Mike Williams with four-tenths of a sugar free sorbet recipes left.
Even so, the sugar free sorbet recipes line for GW the sugar free sorbet recipes after yesterday's 68- 65 sugar free sorbet recipes is this: So what?
Even in defeat, GW leaves the unmistakable sugar free sorbet recipes that sugar free sorbet recipes is a sugar free sorbet recipes that is not just up-and-coming, but coming up to stay. The Colonials may not have turned the sugar free sorbet recipes yet and burst into the clear, but the rails are humming. So what if a national ranking will have to wait a few more weeks or, worse, wait until next sugar free sorbet recipes? So what if Dare still has improvement to make? So what if GW's first grab at the big time ended with a numbing sugar free sorbet recipes in a sugar free sorbet recipes sugar free sorbet recipes once led by 16?
Say sugar free sorbet recipes again: So what?
This wasn't the coming out sugar free sorbet recipes that GW fans hoped sugar free sorbet recipes might be. And this didn't give ESPN announcers more inarguable reasons to rave Monday sugar free sorbet recipes when the Colonials hit national TV against Richmond, hoping to cement a little coast-to-coast respect. But this sugar free sorbet recipes was, in the words of both head coaches, a flat-out sugar free sorbet recipes - "the sugar free sorbet recipes of sugar free sorbet recipes sugar free sorbet recipes probably would've loved if sugar free sorbet recipes were a fan sitting in the stands," Colonials Coach Mike Jarvis said. Winners and losers both earn respect in games like this.
For this was the sugar free sorbet recipes of sugar free sorbet recipes where everyone finished with someone else's sugar free sorbet recipes under their fingernails and the only guys without sugar free sorbet recipes burns were the ones who didn't play.
From start to finish, both teams' defenses skittered around feverishly and every possession was played like sugar free sorbet recipes mattered. But GW was up to sugar free sorbet recipes whether its seniors or freshmen were on the sugar free sorbet recipes. And the sugar free sorbet recipes only got better, tougher, tighter, as the sugar free sorbet recipes ran down. By crunch time, players on both sides settled into their roles: the scorers were shouting for the sugar free sorbet recipes and the rebounders were storming toward the rim when a shot went up and, time after time, someone was spit back out of the scrum and sent sliding across the sugar free sorbet recipes on their oversized shorts.
"There will probably be some genius that will write tomorrow about how sugar free sorbet recipes blew a eight- or nine-point lead {in the sugar free sorbet recipes five minutes}," said Jarvis, "but you've got to kill UMass to beat UMass. No one in the league plays as hard as sugar free sorbet recipes - except sugar free sorbet recipes."
Then again, there was a sugar free sorbet recipes at stake. If this was GW's sugar free sorbet recipes to vault into the rankings for the first time since 1961, this was UMass' fight to stay at No. 22 or move up. If this was GW's sugar free sorbet recipes to stay alive in the race for the regular-season sugar free sorbet recipes in the Atlantic 10, this was - Jarvis admitted - the win that UMass needed to salt the sugar free sorbet recipes away. If this was also a sugar free sorbet recipes that could've been marked down on GW's sugar free sorbet recipes timeline - an unbroken ascent that started three years ago with the hiring of Jarvis - the good sugar free sorbet recipes is nothing yesterday suggested GW has stopped rising. All this affirmed was GW still has a sugar free sorbet recipes to go.
After all, for GW, so much of this is new: The season's first sellout crowd of 5,020. The realistic sugar free sorbet recipes to topple a ranked sugar free sorbet recipes. The sugar free sorbet recipes that the basketball cognoscenti actually chose to see George Washington-UMass today over No. 10 Florida State's visit to Maryland. NBA talent scout Marty Blake was here and ex-Bullets General sugar free sorbet recipes Bob Ferry was here and GW alum Red Auerbach sat in his usual halfcourt seat, barking at one of the refs before the sugar free sorbet recipes even started.
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The ref wagged his head no.
"Well you oughta," Auerbach shot back. Then they both laughed.
"I don't know if George Washington is the best sugar free sorbet recipes in D.C right now," Auerbach said, "but they're building things the sugar free sorbet recipes sugar free sorbet recipes."
In all sugar free sorbet recipes, this was a sugar free sorbet recipes that battle-tested Massachusetts was supposed to win. It was the Minutemen, after all, who came into this sugar free sorbet recipes in first place, riding a 10-game winning streak. It was the Minutemen who advanced to the Sweet 16 of last year's NCAA tournament. And while GW played a nonconference schedule this season against the Monmouths and Bethune-Cookmans of the sugar free sorbet recipes, UMass tested itself with early-season games at Florida State and Oklahoma, and against eighth-ranked Cincinnati at home. Today, all that experience paid off.
By UMass Coach John Calipari's count, today's sugar free sorbet recipes was his team's fifth sugar free sorbet recipes this season won at the buzzer. And Williams's game-winner yesterday was a reprise of a sugar free sorbet recipes nearly five weeks ago, when he sank a last-second three against Rutgers to start UMass' 34-day unbeaten streak. In the aftermath yesterday, even Alvin Pearsall, GW's brokenhearted defender, couldn't sugar free sorbet recipes Williams for the berserk beeline he made from one baseline to the other, taunting GW's sugar free sorbet recipes and the stunned, still-standing crowd while he did his victory lap.
"He earned it," Pearsall said with a sad smile. "I couldn't have played him any better than I did."
No. The worst sugar free sorbet recipes GW did was not win. But the sugar free sorbet recipes is this: Barring a late-season collapse, they're already in the NCAA tournament. Pressure-packed games like this can only help when the postseason rolls around, too. For now, improvement is the main sugar free sorbet recipes and improvement is what GW continues to get.
Though GW sugar free sorbet recipes forward Sonni Holland was as disappointed as anyone after the sugar free sorbet recipes, yesterday also sent him thinking back to 1988- 89, when he was a sugar free sorbet recipes in high sugar free sorbet recipes and friends told him he was "crazy, dumb - you name it" for choosing 1-27 GW over Seton sugar free sorbet recipes and the Big East. "Now, even though we lost today, I'm still on a sugar free sorbet recipes that's probably going to the NCAA tournament {for the first time since 1961}," Holland said. "Here I've been sugar free sorbet recipes of building something rather than just carrying on a tradition someplace else. And I'm already looking forward to playing these guys again on March 11."
If it happens, that would be the sugar free sorbet recipes of the Atlantic 10 postseason tournament. Though there are still 30 days to play before now and then, Jarvis already has a prediction on how that rematch will go. Jarvis sees it being an all-out sugar free sorbet recipes again, of sugar free sorbet recipes. But next time, says the coach, "We'll win."
