It was the first Diwali of my 4 years of college that I spent back here and not at home. Many reasons for that, but this would have all the makings of a great day. I woke up with a sore knee from previous morning's game against the tribals. Woke up anticipating a difficult game against a rejuvenated MIT team, in the finals of Golden Jubilee Cup. We were conducting this extra home tournament this year, and even though competition from the local teams isn't anything worthy of a mention, there was pressure to win. We had lost Dasara, which we had been winning from when I can remember. We were just not in that free flowing zone that we were in by this time last year. We needed the win. Come 5 o clock in the evening, we went in to the game with a funny line up. A gamble to start our freshman center payed off. The gamble of going in to the game with not much height and presence inside, which again payed off. We shot the ball like never before this year. 'I knew after the first shot, that we were winning this easily' said Captain Blok. That's the feeling we all got. 40 minutes and a dirty game hence, we won. We won by 9, much easier than we thought. After being robbed off the best player award to many worthy candidates, we celebrated the festival of light and our victory with a team dinner. Little bit of DSP, and we took 3 hours to answer one simple question the above mentioned freshman posed. All in all it rounded up a great day, possibly the greatest of my final year so far. Happy with my game, Happy with the team's, Happy that we're such a nice unit, Happy that Diwali away from home would end up being such a great day, Happy that I've got to go pick up our brand new red jerseys in a few minutes - Oops, Gotta Run. Happy Diwali, everyone :D
