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Cool basketball tradition?

Unread post by AppinVA » Mon Dec 10, 2012 7:40 pm

I love this tradition.





Five great moments from this year’s Silent Night game at Taylor University
By Jeff Eisenberg | The Dagger – Sat, Dec 8, 2012 9:00 AM EST

Whether it's the famed Rock Chalk Jayhawk song at Kansas, Utah State's often-emulated "I Believe" chant or the hawk mascot at Saint Joseph's continually flapping his wings, college basketball has many great traditions.
The most fun of all, however, takes place every December at a small NAIA school in Indiana.
For the past two decades, costume-clad Taylor students pack their cramped 2,500-seat gym on the Friday before fall semester finals week but remain eerily silent for the opening minutes of the game. Only after Taylor scores its 10th point do they erupt with cheers, applause and general mayhem not even Duke's Cameron Crazies could match.


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Re: Cool basketball tradition?

Unread post by AppSt94 » Mon Dec 10, 2012 8:03 pm

That is the quintessential definition of the "college experience.
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Re: Cool basketball tradition?

Unread post by PBR1893-BEER-HAT-GUY » Mon Dec 10, 2012 10:27 pm

whats app basketball's experience???? hell, we got the quiet as a mouse part down pat! :mrgreen:
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Re: Cool basketball tradition?

Unread post by AppinVA » Tue Dec 11, 2012 12:50 am

PBR1893-BEER-HAT-GUY wrote:whats app basketball's experience???? hell, we got the quiet as a mouse part down pat! :mrgreen:
Did we ever hit ten points? :mrgreen:
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Re: Cool basketball tradition?

Unread post by WataugaMan » Tue Dec 11, 2012 6:37 am

PBR1893-BEER-HAT-GUY wrote:whats app basketball's experience???? hell, we got the quiet as a mouse part down pat! :mrgreen:
Could that be becasue we're not at that score 10 point level yet? :lol:
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Re: Cool basketball tradition?

Unread post by t4pizza » Fri Dec 21, 2012 8:44 pm

That is really a cool experience. Makes me want to find where the hell Taylor is located and go watch a basketball game sometime. Really an amazing tradition.
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Re: Cool basketball tradition?

Unread post by MountainMan » Fri Dec 21, 2012 9:31 pm

Taylor University has about 2000 students. I think all of them were at that game.
ASU has about 17,000 students. We can get about 300 of them to go to a game.

Definitely need some kind of tradition.
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