Bob and I went to our first Gardner-Webb University basketball game this afternoon. The Bulldogs (The Dawgs) are currently fourth in the Big South Conference with an 11-10 record prior to this afternoon’s game. They went up against the High Point University Panthers with the same record.
We enjoyed the game, although not terribly impressed with the officiating (at least 2 very bad calls) or the announcer who was difficult to understand, as if he talked too closely into the mic. The band was fun, and it’s always interesting to see the different activities that schools do during timeouts. Best of all GW won!
We also had a couple of surprises just looking around the gymnasium. First, we learned that the University of South Carolina Upstate, the college near Boiling Springs, South Carolina, that we had walked around during our house sit there, is also in the Big South Conference. We also learned that Artis Gilmore, a former NBA player, attended Gardner-Webb for two years before transferring to Jacksonville. I had never heard of him, but Bob had.
and they successfully completed other lifts later.
This is how we discovered that we’d already been on campus
at another Big South school.
He played in the ABA and then the NBA for 16 years for 4 different teams.
He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame in 2011.
We also got a surprise early Valentines gift from Cooper today, though we think his owner placed the order.
Peckish Travels 