AHHH!!! My First college game!!

Wow! What an experience this was. This was probably one of the most fun times of my life, but also most nervous. It all seemed fine until coach told me to go in the game. The trip was like every other basketball trip i've ever been on in my life. We left the day before and practice at the UNL gym, and had a team meal that night. After that the team went back to the hotel and just hung out. In the morning we had a team breakfast, and I was still calm as could be. This whole time I was thinking, "ah its just another game no big deal!" Don't get me wrong i was still preparing for a huge game but I just looked at it like that because i thought i wouldn't get nervous. So at about four o'clock we had a pre-game meal. and about six we headed over to the devaney center to get ready for the game. To this point I was still fine, just another pre-game ritual and life was good. So we warmed up and all that good stuff, and they did the starting lineups. And at that point it kinda hit me. For the lineups they shut all the lights off and put a spot light on the players and played so loud music. And the fans were screaming real loud. Even though i wasn't starting, I realized this was the real deal, it was't high school anymore. After about a minute into the game coach told me to go in because the starting center was already in foul trouble. I was not as ready as i thought i was. As soon as I took my warm-up top off my hands got real sweaty and I got very nervous. This was finally it, I was playing college basketball. But I couldn't control my nerves, and all i kept thinking about is how i wanted to impress the coaches. I knew the nerves would go away eventually, but when was the question. After being in for about a minute, i grabbed a rebound, and finally i was in my comfort zone. I was doing what i've always done, just playing basketball, and after that rebound i was fine for the rest of the game!! But my nerves were at an all time high when i started against marquette, but i'll save that for another blog:)