Colombia won their first game in the NCAA tournament. How football and cartoon signs helped lions in March

Chapel Hill, NC – Thursday night it was easy for the eyes to run for different parts of Carmil Arena while Colombia’s lions faced Washington Haski in the first four seeds of the 11th No. 11 championship.

Some of them were dragged to the ground, where Kitty Henderson was destructive in defense and its assists deserved highlight. Others focused on the three-point line, which Roywis rotated long-term jumps without any attempt. Some of them looked at the script, which Colombia deleted 13 points and made five points in the middle of the fourth quarter.

And then some people couldn’t stop looking at Colombia’s bench, where players and coaches for lions took turns on cartoons in the air, beat and moved, to indicate different things for the players on earth. One of them was written on the word “neon”. Another green mushroom of Super Mario Bros video games. And the third was a Colombian player showing wrinkles.

There were others. And while fans among the people, the media members in the ranks of journalism and the benching throne may be confused, every member of the Colombian women’s basketball team knows the meaning of everyone.

“I think in this program, we are just big on the details. That’s just another way to join your team,” Henderson said. “When we are all on the same page, it’s a great benefit, and like – why don’t you just be very clear about what we do?”

Throughout the season, these signs have made explanations to Colombia and guide to their competitors. On Thursday at Chapel Hill, they played a small but decisive role in helping the lions defeat Haski 63-60, in a victory that was important in many ways.

Not only was Colombia’s first victory in the NCAA tournament, but his first win over a Big Ten squad. And for Henderson, one of the best players ever walking at the door of the IVE League – one who was there for every step that made this moment of history – that was 100 success in the uniforms of the lions.

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But let’s go back to those symptoms. Because they are a little strange, stupid and unusual, right?

These pictures are very famous in college football, where paranoia coaches are doing everything they can to make their opponents know what they will do in the future. In autumn, play each power 4 games and you will see men wearing different colors in the quarter-quarters of acne, all of which make signals on each game. You see, employees have raised different paintings, some of which are covered with the Internet or steel from the movie scenes.

But there is a reason why college football teams continue to do so. Because it works. Because the players and coaches know what these signs mean and no one else does. There will be a lot of work to know – it is much more complex than just looking at a time to steal playing signals.

Even in college basketball, this type of training is unbelievable.

Columbia coach Megan Griffith, a 39-year-old former university student who is currently in the ninth season of the team – is a football fan. He likes the game because it’s complicated. There are 22 players on the pitch, each of which has a different job.

He noticed the assistant coaches who do not wear the color of the team and carry the paintings with the wild pictures.

“I think football is really interesting because there is a lot of details and high levels of coordination that happens,” Griffett said. “There are people who have symptoms and hats that throw the other team. I think we have learned a lot.

The way Griffit tells the idea of ​​using the signs on the bench by assistant coach Ali Basetti. One day, he took the plan for Griffith and said, “What if we did that?” Griffith thought it was a very good idea, especially because Colombia would often like to change his defensive plans.

“If we are supposed to be this multi-journal team and we want to be more aware that when we are in the bonus or in the bonus, why don’t we only show them visible? “I think the best teams, the best leaders are at high levels, and it’s really difficult to do only verbally. and An oral for all the things we do and we have every way we call.”

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While Colombia began making a knife at Washington leading, different symptoms were rising in the air. The upper mushrooms were suspended after one of five or three points. The “Neon” symbol was raised after Henderson took out one of his seven assists. It was on, on top of the nail, and the lions celebrated in the middle of the stadium after they made the history of the program.

In addition to being a team in the Ive League with the zero zero players who combined a squad from the rich and strong Big, Colombia’s victory was unposed to be in many ways.

The lions have fallen in two numbers in the first half. Hasky took the lead about 32 minutes. And in the first half, Dalaiya Daniels in Washington was fully ownership of the glass, in 18 minutes in the first two frames of 10 penalties.

Daniels played about 38 minutes. But when Colombia attacked the stadium in the second half, the 6-foot and 4-inch 4-inch striker scored just one more goal and ended with 11 goals. In fact, the lions won in the fight against the glass 30-2

The first half message was simple to Colombia: stop allowing Daniels to lose his arrest. The lions locked and ended it.

Is there a sign of that?

“Yes, that’s a sign of a great stand,” Henderson said with a smile. “It was really a physical game, so I think we just arranged ourselves with it and we just got up and we had to take the 50-50 balls,” he said. That’s what you have to do to win.”

In the future, Colombia is a war with West Sixth-class Virginia. The paintings are again on the bench. Henderson makes games, Wiss is hitting deep blows, and lions do whatever they need to put more in a win column.