Song of the Day: Jump Around

Happy Monday! This song is my shoutout to the University of North Carolina basketball team for their big win on Saturday night at Duke in Coach K’s last home game. “Jump Around” is the pre-game song played right before tip-off in Carolina’s home basketball games in the Dean Smith Center to get the crowd and the players hyped up for the game. As a Carolina basketball fan, there hasn’t been a whole lot to cheer for this season, especially given the huge expectations placed on the program every season. But for as underwhelming as the season has been, the win on Saturday night was perfect. With the media’s overly obsession with the Duke program and Coach K, it couldn’t have been sweeter to send him out that way and see the sad, sad faces on all of the fans who either spent a fortune (avg. ticket price was over $5,000) or camped out for a month and a half to witness that game. Perhaps even better was the cocky move on Duke’s part to have the ceremony take place after the game. And lastly, shifting focus back to the UNC side of things, this win solidified them as a tournament team, effectively taking them off the bubble. Hopefully they can keep the momentum going throughout March Madness.

Garett