weird scenes inside the jungle.

What a great win for the women's team tonight! They beat Valpo, with whom we entered the evening tied for second place. And they had the tie-breaker on us, I think. But with the win, IUPUI now holds sole possession of second place.

The game was nearly as expected. Bot theams fought tooth and nail to the bitter end.

This year's conference tournament is going to be a dandy.

But tonight's game was earmarked by other weirdness. I handle PA announcing and music during the game. That means all timeouts, etc. go through me. As a relatively standard thing, I have a few sound effects locked and loaded for specific moments in the game, including the off-chance an opposing team's player will foul out at a crucial moment. I had two such occurences this evening. I busted out a new sound for the first one -- a "disappointed" horn from The Price Is Right (you'd know it if you heard it), followed by music used in the Apple "Switch" TV ads a few years ago.

Then a second player fouled out. Rather than to my standard Law & Order "gavel" (doink doink!) followed by Hit The Road Jack, I opted for the Final Jeopardy "think" music.

Ed Holdaway, the SID, gave me a hard time because I used it on him once during a game (something I was cautioned to never do again....when we have scoreboard malfunctions). Next thing I know, I see one of the officials at the scorer's table, looking at me. He says, "Are you in charge of the musci?" He was rather stern and direct.

"Yeah," I replied.

"I'd really rather not hear the Jeopardy music right now. I want you to turn it off," he said.

I paused. He glared. I gave in and turned it off. But I must admit I was seriously having a Whisky Tango Foxtrot moment.

I laughed as I potted down the music and looked at Ed, who had what can only be described as a shocked and comical look on his face.

"Wow!" I said. "He must've had a bad Final Jeopardy moment or something."

I don't know if a ref has that jurisdiction. It's the first time a ref has ever directed me to not play something. Given that I don't care enough to risk getting a technical foul for the home team, I didn't argue it.

But seriously, what the hell, man?

He only got weirder, too.

Valpo called a full timeout. Our cheerleaders ran onto the floor to do a routine. He shouted -- shouted! -- them off the floor. They were just as stunned as we were.

"Wow, what a tyrant!" I overheard an unidentified voice exclaim. Dude was out of control.

Those are two things I have never seen happen before. Ever. I have never had an altercation with an official. I've never seen an official yell at cheerleaders....at CHEERLEADERS!!!

I broke tradition at the conclusion of the game to commemorate the bizarre closing moments. Rather than play the crowd out with my signature song (David Letterman theme), I played.....wait for it....

The Twilight Zone.

I have no earthly idea what to make of tonight.

It was the weirdest thing I've ever seen when I've worked a game.