The Power Of Thin Mints

Yesterday, the Iowa Women's Basketball team put in an impressive performance against the Purdue Boilermakers, coming away with a 70-50 victory on a crowded home court. It was an impressive rematch, considering that Iowa had gone to Purdue and lost 81-59 just two weeks ago. With injured players getting healthy again, it looks as if- tentatively- things may be starting to 'gel' to speak for the team and they might just be starting to play well, play consistently and get hot down the stretch. And it looks like the more they play, the better they look...

And then of course there were the Thin Mints. Yesterday was also 'Girl Scout Day' at Carver-Hawkeye and 800-1000 screaming Girl Scouts showed up early and participated in a little bit of a cheer clinic and learned all the cheers- and in a stroke of genius, Director of Basketball Operations Abby Emmert told the Girl Scouts to chant 'THIN MINTS, THIN MINTS, THIN MINTS!' whenever Purdue went to the free throw line. (A refreshing change from whatever obnoxious thing basketball fans usually shout when the opposing team is at the line.) And the Girl Scouts, being all about girl power and of course, cookies were nothing but enthusiastic about letting themselves be heard when Purdue was taking their shots.

The crazy thing is- it kinda worked. For the season Purdue was averaging about 70% at the line. Yesterday they were at 41%.

Behold, the power of thin mints.