Summit League Basketball Tournament: Day One

By Samantha Franz
Sports Editor

I always seem to be traveling to Tulsa, Okla at the right times. Last year, both the men's and women's Oakland University basketball teams made it to the championship game. This year, not only is this the inagural year for the league's Summit League monkier, but I also completely bypassed the winter storm that blasted the Midwest.


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Sucks to be you, Ohio.

But just like last year, I am not alone. By my side is contributing reporter Tim Rath, who will be covering the women's tournament, and Brad Doescher and Corey Hagood of WXOU radio.

The flights were fairly smooth, although there was one minor freakout session when our 8:40 a.m. flight to Chicago was delayed. The pilot announced that, "While we are good here, the wheels are up, so we're going to be delayed another 25 minutes.

Um, what? Is that pilot slang?

Though our plane took off not too long after the announcement, we landed at O'Hare at 10:17, late for our 9:55 takeoff to Tulsa.

"Great," we thought. "We're going to be stranded here...AGAIN." (See last year's entry on our 5 1/2 hour delay).

Then, the miracle happened. It turned out that the plane that had just taken us to Chicaco was also going to take us to Tulsa.

Hooray!

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I love having window seats.

Not only did we land on time, but actually had time to relax and check out the main drag on 71st Street.

First order of business? Sonic, of course. Duh.


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Corey is totally excited.
I have a feeling multiple meals will be
coming from here.