Bob Devanie Sports Center

This weekend I was walking around down by memorial stadium enjoying the festivities of the Cornhusker game that would later take place that night. After I had been wondering for awhile I found myself down near the Bob Devaney Sports Center. The Bob Devaney Sports Center is where NU plays all of their men’s and women’s basketball games and is host to many other athletic events. As I was walking by here my mind was jostled into remembering many memories that I have from previous years at Devaney. While growing up me and my fellow classmates would journey to Lincoln for the highlight of our young basketball careers, we would come down and play in the MIT (Midwest Invitational Tournament). It was the biggest tournament we would play in each year, but the best part about it was that it was on the same weekend as the High School State Basketball Tournament. I loved it we made so many memories. We met so many different people through that week and had so many good times sitting in the bleachers of Devaney. As we grew older we started to come closer and closer to the moment when we would be in high school and hopefully make different memories at Devaney by playing there. Two years later our dreams had come true we were once again in Devaney for the State Tournament, but this time wearing a jersey instead of street clothes. It was amazing to play in front of all the people at a place that I had been going to ever since I was a little kid. It was an amazing feeling to know that some little kid was sitting up in the same section that we always used to sit in and he was looking down at us making new memories for themselves. It was such a rush to walk by a simple building, but be hit by so many memories and emotions.