When I was 6, my family and I traveled to San Antonio for the Final Four.
The Oklahoma State men’s basketball team had just defeated Saint Joseph’s in the Elite 8, so the Cowboys were joining Connecticut, Duke and Georgia Tech as teams that had chances to win the NCAA Championship.
Nearly 16 years later, the experience exists in my mind in snapshots, memories that mostly aren’t focused on the games themselves but instead remind me of the electric atmosphere.
We rode a shuttle bus and then walked to the arena in a seemingly endless sea of people.