I took some of my girls hoops team to the MAAC Marist vs. Siena game last night for "Pack the House" night. Marist crushed Siena, 78-48 and at halftime, right there on the Marist court, the two top teams in our league played a mini-scrimmage.

After a few (nervous) minutes of no scoring and a lot of turnovers, they finally sunk their first basket, and the rest kept on coming. All the kids loved having their league's name on the announcements to the record-breaking sold out crowd.

And they liked the soda. And the candy. And the snacks. I liked that the snacks were cheap. I'm so used to mortgaging my house to buy snacks at ballgames, that I forgot I was at a college game.

The girls got to see a zone defense, man-to-man (woman-to-woman) and how fast they pass the ball. Their star guard Nikki Flores was showing off her hot-stuff dribbling, which of course had the girls saying they wanted to do that in the game. OK, that's fine, but learn to dribble without looking first, then dribble behind your back and through your legs.

They noticed, without me telling them, how there were no offensive rebounds. "Why aren't they rebounding, Coach?" It was too noisy to explain. They liked how two really short players were dominating the ball-handling and outside shooting (tons of 3's).

I can't wait to see if I see some better passing today. Or shooting (I pray). If nothing else, they bonded as a group and got a taste of victory.