Beating #1

Sometimes, when your team has just beat the #1 team in the nation on their own court, especially in the last 1/10th of the last second....

you have to watch for the cobras.

Trulick got the pic.  Count 'em.


Cobras.  Glorious cobras EVERYWHERE.

Congratulations to Steven F. Austin. Today, I'm a Lumberjack.  And I'm OK.

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