Last year the pandemic struck in mid-March, and we lost the most exciting event on the annual sports calendar, the NCAA Basketball Tournament. 67 games of “win and advance” or “lose and go home.” This year’s tournament has started with a bang including 15th-seed Oral Roberts University defeating a 2nd-seed Ohio State yesterday.

Of course that means ORU has to play tomorrow, and here’s what ORU coach Paul Mills said about that:

The reality is you have to turn around and you’re about to play another one, so the celebration better be pretty quick. If you spend all your time looking back at your wedding day videos, you’re probably not going to have a very good marriage.

That will preach!

But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3.13, 14, ESV)