Duquesne-La Salle postgame (Soft Pretzel Logic)

Duquesne-La Salle postgame

Duquesne: Ron Everhart, Reggie Jackson and Gary Tucker
La Salle: John Giannini, Darnell Harris and Rodney Green

Video highlights of John Giannini, Darnell Harris and Rodney Green

ATLANTIC CITY -- Word comes from A-10 Director of Communications Stephen Haug that the GameTracker malfunction was caused by the scorer's table computer "blowing up."

So I'm going to work on the video and audio stuff for a while, and check back in at halftime of Rhode Island-La Salle unless events warrant.

Of note, there are about 20 Rhody students here in the horseshoe end of the seating bowl, and both bands are present.

UPDATE: It's a bit after halftime now and still no box score. I noticed from the Charlotte-Rhode Island box that they've definitely switched computers, because the new box is in Arial font instead of the previous Courier.

Anyway, Rhode Island led Charlotte at the half, 37-32, thanks largely to 15 points from Jimmy Baron. An'Juan Wilderness, who has without question the coolest name in this year's tournament, led Charlotte with 10 points.

There are now just over three minutes gone in the second half and it's 44-37 URI.

I'll be back after this game to recap it and pull together all the multimedia from the day.

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Posted by Jonathan Tannenwald on March 12, 2008 9:14 PM | Permalink

Comments (3)

Typist:

Why would a computer switch explain the change in fonts? You can easily change a font within an application, such as MS word. And even if you did switch computers, you could still choose the same font. Duh...

And who really cares about this?

And -- one more thing.. URI played Charlotte, not LaSalle. So stop worrying about fonts and such, and get your facts straight.

Posted by Typist | March 13, 2008 12:50 AM

Posted on March 13, 2008 00:50

Jonathan Tannenwald

It means they were using a different computer program to input the plays in the game. The box scores are automatically generated by the program the scorer's table puts the data in that is fed to the GameTracker service.

I got some emails during the game asking me what happened, so that's the answer.

And I fixed the typo, thanks.

Posted by Jonathan Tannenwald | March 13, 2008 1:07 AM

Posted on March 13, 2008 01:07

Jack:

Thanks for ensuring that I got nothing done at work today. Look forward to doing it again tomorrow.

Posted by Jack | March 13, 2008 1:56 AM

Posted on March 13, 2008 01:56

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