Bleeding Bluejay Blue!!

Knust Bluejays

If you know me, you know I have a passion for college basketball. (If you don't, check out the links.) March is typically my least productive month (unless you measure productivity by how much basketball one can absorb in 31 days!).

Another of my passions is Creighton University, where I earned a business degree thirty years ago and to where our two oldest kids matriculated. They both earned business degrees and all three of us "bleed" Creighton blue.

So you can imagine what happens when you take two of my passions and combine them in the month of March. It makes for some “white knuckle” fun!

The Creighton Bluejays have had a great year and aside from a three game streak in early February, they have been a lot of fun to follow. The coach-player, father-son team of Greg and Doug McDermott have brought Creighton’s family theme to the basketball court.

Oldest child Bluejay Rachel is making her way from Washington, DC to Greensboro, NC, where the Creighton will take on the Alabama Crimson Tide in the NCAA Tournament on Friday afternoon. She will be rallying with the DC Creighton Alumni and cheering the Jays on to a win!

Bluejay son Alex spent his birthday earlier this month in St. Louis, cheering on the Bluejays in their "Arch Madness" run to the Missouri Valley Conference title. He is trying to figure out a way to make the two-hour trek from his work in Sioux Falls to our home in Chamberlain, where we'll have the projector and three other TVs tuned in to all things Creighton, in time for the 1:40 PM EDT tip-off.

Honorary Bluejay wife Judy has CU degree in Motherhood. She is a University of South Dakota Coyote but she spent her share of time at CU during her college days. Judy cannot watch the Creighton games - the pressure is too great. Anything less than a twenty point lead sends her to the next room to do a couple laps around the rosary with a favorable outcome for the Bluejays' as her intention. She could be the Bluejays' MVP (Most Valuable Prayer).

Youngest child Sarah will be cheering on the local high school basketball team in the state tournament. Though she attended a Bluejay game in Omaha with us earlier this season, she probably won't be losing any sleep over the Bluejays' fate.

The Lady Jays will give us Jays fans some bonus basketball as they earned their way into the women's version of March Madness. They will take on St. John's in Norman, OK on Sunday afternoon. So Jays fans will have a rooting interest in a Sunday game regardless.

I have been heard this week to complain about the Bluejays' eight seed and their potential second round matchup against the top seeded North Carolina Tar Heels in the Heels' backyard. I am over all that now (NOT!) and ready for the boys to lace 'em up, take the court and kick some Crimson Tide ass! GO BLUEJAYS!!!!!