Columbia won the NCAA tournament game for the first time. How did football and cardboard marks help the lions in March’s madness

Chapel Hill, NC – Columbia lions were easy to wait for different places in the Carmichael Arena Washington Huskies In the first four battles of the seed number 11 in the NCAA tournament.

Some, Kitty Henderson was in a hurry to defend and stressed his worthy assistants who went beyond. Others were directed to a 3-point line that tries Riley Weiss diligently the long-range jumps. Some look at the score panel that resets a 13-point deficit to take half of the five-point lead between Columbia’s fourth quarter.

And then some people could not stop looking at Colombia, where players and coaches, strict card panels for lions, and waved them and waved them and fell them to the players. He was written on the word “neon” in one. Another presented a green mushroom from Super Mario Bros. Video games. Third and turned into a Columbia player.

There were others. The fans in the crowd are mixed in the press, the Huskies in the press and the opposite bench, which know the meaning of each member of Colombia’s Women’s Basketball Team.

“I think we are big on this program. This is another way to connect with your team,” Henderson said. “When we are all on the same page, it is a great advantage, and why not just don’t be very clear what we do?”

All season long, those signs suggested the wrong announcement for clarity and opponents for Columbia. On Thursday, in Chapel Hill, 63-60 of the lions were a small but decisive role in helping the Lions in many victories in many victories.

It was not only the first victory in Columbia’s NCAA tournament, but also the first victory on the big staff. For Henderson, one of the best players passing through the doors of the Ivy League – is something there for every step of being there for every step that brings this history.

But back to these traits. Because they are a little strange and stupid and unusual?

There are such pictures It is very popular in college footballParanoid coaches do everything they can do to avoid knowing what to do next to their opponents. Turn 4 games in the same way and you will see men in the quarter wearing various colored hats that give you any signal in any game. You will see employees Catch different signsSome are still covered with internet memions or movie views.

But there is a reason that college football teams continue to do so. Because it works. Because players and coaches inside the program do not know what these characters mean and no one else is. It would be a lot of work to understand – it’s more complicated to steal sound signals just looking at a catch.

Again, such experience in college basketball is very rare.

Columbia head coach Megan Griffith – A 39-year-old graduate of the university is now a promissory note as a football fan leading his 9-year-old commander. The game loves is complicated because. There are 22 players in the field, each of them is different.

He saw coaches’ assistant coaches with signs with untouched and wild-looking images.

“I think the football game is really interesting because there are so many details and such as high-level communication coordination,” said Griffith. “There are people with signs and hats throwing other teams. I think we learned a lot.”

Griffith, this was the idea of ​​using the signs on the bench, auxiliary coach Allie Bassetti. One day, he took the plan Griffitt and said, “What do we do if we do it? Griffith, especially the Columbia defense schemes thought that it was a great idea because he loves to change.

“If we will be a lot of press groups and want to be more awareness than we are in a bonus or don’t look at the bonus, why don’t we notice. So visually there is something and As we have orally and communicate for everything we do. “

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As Columbia began to teeth in Washington’s lead, different signs were removed to the air. One mushroom was followed by one of the five 3 marks of Weiss. After his seven assists of Henderson, the symbol of the Neon was removed. Until the buzzer sounded and burn and the lions were celebrated in the Middle Court after preparing the date of the program.

In addition to a team from a team from the ivy league, in addition to a team of rich and powerful Big Ten, Columbia’s victory was incredible in several ways.

The lions were low with double digits in the midfield. Huskies lasted about 32 minutes. In the first half, Washington’s Dalayah Daniels, in 18 minutes of the first two frames, holding 10 rebounds in 18 minutes of the game, he had a glass.

Daniels are injured by playing for almost 38 minutes. As Columbia retrieved in the second half, the fifth year of 6 meters 4 meters, completed 11 for the game, and another rebound, a more ribaut. The lions actually won 30-29 in the battle in the bottle.

The message in the midfield for Columbia was simple: stop missing Daniels. Lions were locked and did it.

Was there a sign for that?

“Yes, this is a great stop,” Henderson said with a hook. “It was a really physical game, so I think we just made it and just gone and it’s to win 50-50 balls. You have to win.”

The next, sixth-seeded West Virginia for Columbia is a battle. Marks will be on the bench again. Henderson will play, Weiss will shoot deep blows and the lions will do what is needed to put another tally in the winning column.