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No updates in a while for the 3 people who’ve come to the site are not going to make them return. That is OK, as this is more of a chronicle for members of “The Trip”. I need to log my most recent games, so here you go:

12/22 – Creighton vs Fresno State, Saint Louis vs DePaul: “This place is dead anyways” – sad to see fewer than a thousand or so people at The Las Vegas Classic. With the way the economy is, I can’t imagine they bring this back. These pre conference season tourneys are delicious golden basketball for me and I would hate to see them go. Creighton is solid and DePaul keeps their head above water vs  Saint Louis, but won’t vs the Big East this year.

12/23 – Creighton vs DePaul, Fresno St. vs Saint Louis: Why is it that all Jesuit schools have creepy mascots? Creighton pulls off an entertaining win vs Depaul, Fresno just looks sad out there. Unfortunately, I was not able to attend the two games before these on either day due to my work schedule. I would have loved to seen Steph Curry’s brother play for Liberty. Obviously the ability runs in the family and maybe he would have waved to me or something, seeing as I was practically the only one there.

1/3 – UNLV vs New Mexico: Conference hoops begins with a win for the Rebels

1/17 – UNLV vs Wyoming: Maniac head coach finds a suit and tie. Still loses. Wyoming has fast guards and decent bigs, surprised they can’t put something else together.

1/24 – UNLV vs Utah: Utah has (had) a nice SOS and RPI. Huge win for Vegas, keeping Utah’s 7’2″ buffoon in check for most of the game let their shooters loose. Kruger had the right adjustments for the second half with a nice comeback win.

10 + 7 = 17 games on the year for me. Another 5 conference games for the Rebels, will put me at 23. 6 games in Philly for the 1st and 2nd rounds of the NCAA tourney will have me at 29. Throw in another 3 for the Final Four in Detroit and I’ll be at 32. Mix in any random conference championship games (MWC and WCC both here in Vegas) I may be able to snag in early March and I could get close to 40 games.

The Trip agrees that outside of people who do this for a living, we are complete authorities and cannot be stopped. Domination is our only option. Often, conversation with people who are not addicted is impossible. It goes something like this:::

Random: “Hey, Rhett, did you see that guy from Oklahoma last night? He’s pretty good, huh?”

Me: “Yeah, sure.”

And I’m the rude one? Come on man, realize whats going on here. By the time I’m in my 30′s I’ll have HUNDREDS of games under my belt that I’ve actually attended. The trip will realize a decade of being there. This does not count the thousands of games on TV. All of this, and I fall well short of fellow trip members, who’ve been doing this since damn near conception.

Not being cocky. Just facts.