Lady Bears Games and HUGE disappointments!

One thing Baylor is known for is it's incredible Ladies Basketball Program.  The stands are always packed (even more so than the boys) and they rarely disappoint!  Over Spring Break, we decided to drive up to Dallas to watch the girls in the Big 12 Championship game, which we easily won.  We had incredible seats and had such a great time!  Here is a picture of the boys with BU's president, Ken Starr.  It looks like Thomas has a bun on top of his head, but that is a person behind him!  President Starr took several minutes to talk to the boys about their future plans and couldn't have been nicer.

One of our last games with star, Britney Griner.

Knowing that Baylor would at least make it to the Final Four ( and most likely win the championship), Bryon, and 20,000 other BU fans, preordered Final Four tickets along with a $900 nonrefundable hotel stay over three nights in New Orleans.  The boys were going to get to be out of school for three days for the event.  This was such a special year with Britney Griner leaving, and we were beating opponents usually by 40 points.  Well, we got the shock of a lifetime when we watched our beloved Lady Bears fall to Louisville in the Sweet 16.  It was a tough and controversial loss, and we came back from a 20 point deficit to take the lead with a few seconds left....OK, I'm getting sad just writing this and don't want to talk about it anymore!

This left us with $600 worth of tickets and $900 hotel room in New Orleans.  Nice.

Bryon did get on the phone with Expedia and explained why we were needing to unload the hotel room.  The representative felt so sorry for us that she went ahead and refunded the room!  This was a huge blessing since the tickets were never resold.  With 20,000 BU fans trying to unload their tickets, they were going for $5 a piece outside the arena.  Oh well.  We decided to take a day trip to Austin to quell a little bit of the sadness of not going to New Orleans and enjoyed a fun Gospel Brunch at Stubb's bbq.