I knew I was coming to a basketball school, and I played into it like every first year should; trying to keep it cool when the ENTIRE TEAM would casually show up at a party, sending sneaky snap chats to your friends when you pass a player, and developing a major crush for Shae Rush (if you read this, I still love you after your performance during the last two minutes of the game babe), but I still didn’t get the hype until my first basketball game on Friday. After standing in line in the freezing weather, we finally swiped in and got our free student tickets… section 228, row Q. I was up against the back wall but I didn’t care at all; I was with my best friends, wearing Carolina blue, watching the defending National Champions play their season opener at my dream school. Then my friend turned to me and said, “Hey, let’s see if we can get a little closer, there are a lot of open seats.” Five minutes later, after some sneaky moves and a couple of lies, we were sitting third row behind the bench (Hey Shae). I couldn’t stop looking around and thinking about how many times I had watched UNC basketball on TV and seen the students and prayed that one day I would be one of them, and here. I. was. I totally get the basketball hype and I was not let down. After singing our alma mater and shouting “Go to hell duke” for the first time in the dean dome, I feel like I am as in love with UNC as I can be.