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Trust me, we'll ALL lose the warm fuzzies about the Summit League when any one of the following happens in the coming weeks (and you know at least one of them will): 1. We get hosed in the final minutes of a game in the Dakotas by a referee named Jorgensen who doubles as a gym teacher in Grand Forks. 2. Geoff gets knocked off the air when someone at IUPUI steals his power cord to hook up a space heater on Press Row. 3. On a Saturday night game in Tulsa, we draw bottom-of-the-barrel refs who look and act like the goobers in stripes on WWE pay-per-views. 4. Following another screw job on the road, we have to enlist the FBI and local authorities to find commissioner Tom Douple for any kind of response. 5. The streaming video of the game from Southern Utah has the same grainy quality as the first television broadcast of the 1936 Berlin Olympics. 6. The student wanna-be announcers of the game from Western Illinois make Beavis and Butthead sound like Al Michaels and John Madden. 7. Our team arrives just minutes before their own home game in Tulsa after riding out a blizzard overnight in the Minneapolis airport. 8. Despite us winning 10 conference games in a row, Nate Wolters and Reggie Hamilton are named co-Players Of The Week in the Summit League for a record 7th straight time. 9. The preseason baseball poll comes out, and despite ORU being picked to win a record 15th (16th?) conference title, the preseason Pitcher Of The Year is a 150-pounder from South Dakota State who went 4-3 last year with a 5.73 ERA, and the preseason Player Of The Year is a 300-lb. first baseman from Western Illinois with more strikeouts than hits last season. 10. Someone other than us advances from Sioux Falls to the NCAA tournament. Again.