The Massachusetts men's basketball loss to Southern Illinois just barely saved a whole lot of problems for the Daily Collegian sports staff. If the Minutemen won, they would go on to play Duke at Madison Square Garden on Nov. 20 and most likely Michigan on Nov. 21.
The way the current set-up is for the season would've made things a little problematic for this game. This semester, the beat writers for basketball are Jeff Larnard (Assistant Sports Editor), Scott Feldman, and me. It gets a little complicated from there. Feldman (graduating) and I (studying abroad) won't be covering the team next semester so our head Sports Editor, Eli Rosenswaike will cover the team with Jeff for the spring semester.
However, Eli still has the right to use his executive privilige and cover any game he wants to because he's Eli and he covered basketball last year. Our Editor in Chief, Michael King, also covered the team last year. Here would've been the pecking order for covering the Duke game: King, Eli, Jeff, Feldman, and then me. See the problem?
The way it would've probably worked is King and Eli cover the Duke game and Jeff, Feldman, and I cover Michigan but there would've been no way of knowing what would've happened. Two big factors that can explain UMass blowing its lead. 1. Luke Bonner got injured, which caused the Minutemen to lose a solid big man (never thought I'd say that) and 2. Chris Lowe had nine turnovers. Coach Kellogg always likes to say how the team is run through its point guard and tonight that wasn't at all the case.
Oh well, I'm sure SIU will have fun when Duke beats the crap out of it next Thursday.
SIDE NOTE: Make sure to check out my final piece on women's soccer in the Collegian today. It's my first column ever on UMass sports.
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