If you were at First Night last night, first off let me tell you that you missed a great game by the Boston Red Sox. Plus you were also probably wondering where in the world is Carmen Sandiego Doug Wiggins.
It turns out that Wiggins got on Jim Calhoun’s bad side and was banished from last night’s festivities. The one night the poor guy can have fun and he can’t be there. According to Calhoun, he wasn’t living up to the standards that Calhoun sets and was banished from the facility and locker room. He will be at practice today but will have to find a place to dress as he still isn’t allowed in the locker room. He has been working out but not with the team. Wiggins was part of media day on Wednesday but never led on that he was in the doghouse of Calhoun.
All I can say is whatever he did must have been really bad to draw that much of an ire from Calhoun.
The women’s teams got things started last night as the players were introduced to a spectacular light show. The players came out doing dance moves that might have been illegal in 29 states. After that, Mel Thomas and a student beat up on Charde Houston and her student player 35-19 in some two ball. Then Thomas led the way for the blue squad as she scored 9 of the team’s 18 points in a win over the white squad.
After having some fun warming up and being introduced, the men went out and had a good time. Stanley Robinson had the nastiest dunk of the night as he threw one down and then hung on the rim showing how far his arm had gone into the rim. Craig Austrie followed that up by winning the 3-point shooting contest. The night culminated with a 37-10 shellacking of the student all-star intramurals team in a 10-minute scrimmage.
