“March Madness”: SOL Basketball Teams Notch Wins in Intramural and Extramural Competitions

Update: Logan’s Hero’s led from wire to wire, easily topping the undergrad team Lights Out, and moving into the IM finals Thursday evening. An all-law-school championship game did not come to pass as an intrepid band of 3Ls (The Thunder Down Under), led by Kara Henderson and Rob Humm, fell to a hot-shooting undergrad team.

Original Post: Here is a dispatch from Tanveer Shah, chief publicist and point guard for the School of Law team that competes against RWU undergrads:

Determination, power, and focus are adjectives normally used to describe Roger Williams School of Law students in the classroom.  Tonight however, these words described the 1L intramural basketball team, “Logan’s Heroes,” dramatic comeback win.  After being down 11-5 (that’s not a typo) at halftime, the team started the second half with the fury of a courtroom litigator, on their way to a 27-20 victory.  The most memorable play of the night transpired as Kyle Dietrich took flight and dunked over the opposing team’s center, capping an 8-0 run.  With a very stressful legal methods appellate brief due in seven days, this was just the kind of stress relief that helps the students maintain balance during the rigors of first year law school.  Logan’s Heroes is now 4-1 and eagerly looking forward to the intramural playoffs.

Here are some photos from the game:

RWU also fielded a strong team in a regional tournament sponsored by Western New England College School of Law.  Here is a report from team captain Rob Humm:

Current 3Ls Michael Schrama, Kara Henderson, Tim Sullivan, Gregg Curley, and I, and alums Kevin O’Keefe (’07) and Timothy Cavazza (’07), represented Roger Williams in the WNEC’s 33rd Annual Law School Basketball Tournament.  The team had a 4-2 record and made it to the “Elite 8” out of 22 teams. 

The tournament consisted of games within four separate brackets on Saturday, with the top 16 teams advancing to a single-elimination playoff on Sunday.  We won our first game against Franklin Pierce by forfeit and then beat Vermont and one of the WNEC teams, before losing to a WNEC Alumni team, to go 3-1 in our bracket play.

We began the playoffs by beating another WNEC Alumni team in the first round.  However, we lost to Suffolk in the quarterfinals in a grind-it-out defensive matchup.  Quinnipiac beat the same Suffolk team by one point in the championship game.