What a busy day it has been. The team started out the morning with breakfast at the hotel before loading up the bus to head to Sonntag Elementary School in McKinney, Texas for its community outreach portion of the trip. The Vikings visited with students in grades 3-5 and talked to them about the importance of education, exercise and hard work. Coach Billeter started the morning by getting the kids fired up to cheer for the Vikings.
After arriving at the school, the students at Sonntag made a tunnel outside of the school for the guys to walk into the school to loud cheers.
.@SonntagElem welcomes @AugieMensBball 4 @NCAADII quarterfinals @DrPepperArena @visitfrisco https://t.co/PC3NmsHqE0 pic.twitter.com/alMc9pMhmA
— Frisco ISD (@friscoisd) March 22, 2016
The students and teachers at Sonntag Elementary were very welcoming and appreciative of our visit to their school. The guys stuck around and signed autographs for students in selected classes and had a group picture taken.
Following the visit to Sonntag Elementary, the team went over to Reedy High School to shoot around and get ready for tomorrow's game.
After lunch and a brief break, head coach Tom Billeter joined the other seven head coaches of the teams in the Elite Eight for the pre-tournament press conference.
Players met with the Sioux Falls media that made the trip down to Frisco before Friday's practice. Travis Fossing from KELO-TV and Elliot Nathan from KSFY-TV were able to make it down for the press conference and team practice.
Here are a few photos from today's practice session at Dr Pepper Arena.
Augustana in the #NCAAD2 #EliteEight for the first time ever riding a 12-game win streak. #MakeItYours 🏀🏆 pic.twitter.com/zdw88oe3JI
— NCAA Division II (@NCAADII) March 22, 2016
Today was full of activities but now we get to the reason we're here. Tomorrow is Gameday! I'm going to leave you with this for the night as I am off to put the finishing touches on my softball recap from today's NSIC opener at Wayne State. I hope you are enjoying the blog and also make sure to follow along on Twitter (@GoAugie and @EvansT99) for updates throughout the trip.
Make sure to visit www.GoAugie.com/elite8 for all your links for live coverage of tomorrow night's game. The game will be streamed live on NCAA.com at 6 p.m. (CT).
Go Vikings!
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