Written by freshman Andy Riemer

Playoffs. Playoffs mark the end of the regular season and the start of a new one. The new season is the fight for our lives. Any game lost ends it all. Every game won continues our climb to our goal of a NCAA berth and winning the BIG EAST tournament.

Well everyone, I can't believe it but the fall is winding down already!  It seems like just yesterday that I was working on the men's soccer media guide.  Tough weekend here on the Hilltop for a few of our teams, but a huge congratulations to field hockey for a big win on Sunday. 

This morning, John Lim, a student worker in the Sports Information office relayed to us the story of how his family came to America 10 years ago on Saturday. His family arrived in New York and his first vision of America as a young boy was seeing people dressed as superheroes and running around in a variety of other wild costumes. He thought this country was some kind of crazy play land with freedoms beyond belief until his parents explained the idea of Halloween to him. I think that type of experience would have had some very strange lasting effects on myself, to the point I'd possibly still wear a cape and spandex often. John seems to have gotten past that...Gotta love this time of year!

NOW TO THE HOYAS...

As I've learned from my coworker Barb Jonas and former intern Jess Palermo (who left the Hilltop for Chi-Town and now works for the Big Ten Conference), Wisconsin is not "Wisco" or a place where "Sconnies" come from  ... it's the W-I.  And for the first time ever this weekend, the BIG EAST Cross Country Championships are heading to the Cheese State with the Hoyas traveling to Kenosha, Wis., to compete at the Wayne E. Dannehl National Cross Country Course on the campus of UW-Parkside.

Well, we have finally returned from a long weekend away and are ready to start preparing for our game this coming weekend in the quarterfinals of the BIG EAST Championship Tournament against St. Johns.

But first...a recap of this past weekend: