KFC--The Hillary Special

Air Force goes to the Elite Eight in the NIT

Air Force continues to show that it should have gone to the Big Dance, this time knocking off Georgia by 31. Chip Towers from the Atlanta Journal Constitution tells about the game.

Dennis Felton knew it. He just couldn't say it. Air Force was the worst of all possible draws for Georgia in the NIT. For anybody, really.

Monday night, the Falcons (25-8) were obliged to show the world why.

Playing in their packed little arena on the side of a mountain (elevation 7,100 feet), they used guile, hustle and 3-point accuracy to run the Bulldogs out of the gym, 83-52. Air Force was up 23 points in less than 13 minutes, then just did what it had to do from there to advance to the third round of NIT.

The Falcons, once considered shoo-ins for the NCAA tournament, will face DePaul. Again, it will be at Clune Arena.

The only solace for Air Force opponents is that four of its five starters are seniors and coach Jeff Bzdelik is the leading candidate at Colorado.

Against the nation's No. 2 scoring defense, the Bulldogs shot 36 percent and never really figured out the Falcons' matchup zone.

Meanwhile, Air Force put on a clinic for running the Princeton motion offense. The Falcons produced lay-ups galore and mixed in nine 3-pointers to boot. Jacob Burtschi led the way with 21 points and 10 rebounds, and Dan Nwaelele added 19 as they shot 55 percent from the field and 10 players scored.

Romney over Rudy

John Mark Reynolds (an evangelical Christian, by the way) has written a great piece about why Mit Romney is the man that conservatives should be supporting at this point in the race.

Far from worrying about our prodigal Romney who has come home to social conservative values . . . I worry about him least on these issues.

Why? Romney has over time come to traditional points of view on culture of life and family issues. This is not surprising given his religious and social background. Romney is a man of profound faith (though it is not my own) and of deep and abiding traditional values in his personal life. As he has grown older, it is no surprise that a maturing statesman would bring his personal life into closer consistency with his political life.

Romney has the zeal of a new covert tempered by the pragmatic wisdom of one who knows the strengths and weaknesses of his old views.

Even on pragmatic grounds, the convert can be trusted more than the older member. He cannot afford to switch again without looking like a disaster and will work hard to keep his new allies.

The prodigal Romney has come back to his conservative roots having tried to eat the pig food of Harvard and the secular left.

AND

I like Rudy . . . and admire him on many levels. I would love to see him as an attorney general chasing the Mob or Terrorists. He is a liberal of the old school . . . willing to work with conservatives for the good of the nation. We need more liberals like him, but he is a liberal and the Republican party is the conservative party in America.

Rudy is a friend of the conservative movement . . . and an ally, but he should not lead that movement. The Romans were finished when they picked Germans to lead them . . . and the Republicans do not need a friendly foe to head their cause.

Law and Order in the White House?

Foxnews.com is reporting that former Tennessee senator and current Law and Order star Fred Thompson is considering a run for the White House.

"I'm going to wait and see what happens," Thompson said. "I want to see my colleagues on the campaign trial, what they say, what they emphasize, whether they can carry the ball next November."

Thompson, 64, who plays district attorney Arthur Branch on NBC's drama, said he was pondering a run after former Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker and other Tennessee Republicans began drumming up support for his possible Republican candidacy, citing his conservative credentials.

"I think people are somewhat disillusioned. A lot of people are cynical out there. They're looking for something different," he said.

On the issues, Thompson said he:

—Is "pro-life," and believes federal judges should reexamine the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision of 1973 which established a woman's right to an abortion.

—Opposes gay marriage, but would let states decide whether to allow civil unions. "Marriage is between a man and a woman, and judges shouldn't be allowed to change that."

—Supports President George W. Bush's decision to increase troops in Iraq. "Wars are full of mistakes. You rectify them. I think we are doing that now," he said. "We've got to give it a chance to work."

—Would pardon former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's conviction for perjury and obstruction of justice now, rather than waiting until all his appeals are exhausted. Libby was found guilty of perjury and obstruction in the investigation into the 2003 leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity.

Libby is "bearing the political brunt of something that should've never come about," Thompson said, noting that "practically every witness at trial had inconsistent statements."

Thompson said he was not setting a deadline to make a decision and believes he will not be at a disadvantage if he waited until summer. "The lay of the land will be different in a couple of months than it is today, one way or another," he said in an interview on "Fox News Sunday."

I like what I see so far. Very interesting...

Hoops stars to officers

Robert Sanchez from the Denver Post has written a great article about the Air Force men's basketball team. Four of the starters are seniors and are now months away from being commissioned as officers in the US Air Force. Sanchez does a great job of contrasting the difference between these young men and their counterparts at "normal" universities, and then describing what they have waiting for them after graduation.

They expected to play basketball somewhere, but their talents were more suited for Division II ball, or the Ivy League, where several of them had offers.
Still, in their minds, they imagined sinking the game-winning shot in front of thousands of screaming fans on national television. They imagined they could someday have their own sliver of March Madness.
But they never imagined the opportunity would come on a hillside in Colorado, where the iron gates around the campus are as much about keeping people in as they are about keeping others out.
"One of the most common sayings around is that this is a great place to be from, but not be at," says Eric Kenzik, a 22-year-old junior from Florida who wants to fly Air Force transport planes or bombers upon his graduation next year - a decision his parents support.
"It's one of those things where you can't explain it if you're in it, and you can't understand it unless you're part of it," senior center Nick Welch says. "Survive this, and then you'll know."
It's hard to call the academy a college because it is unlike any collegiate experience.
You're told when to wake up, when to eat, when to go to class, when to study and when to go to bed.
Academy life means basic training before you step inside a classroom. It means being told your zipper has been pulled too low on your military issued jacket. It means averaging 18 credit hours a semester when a five-year player at another college might take only 24 an entire year. It means calculus and aerodynamics classes even though you're an English major who has no interest in calculus or aerodynamics. It means eating with 4,000 other cadets at the same time every day while your buddy at the University of Utah grabs a Big Mac at midnight.
But for the players who took the challenge, for them, it means the opportunity to become a better person.
"Every day of my life here, I'm being challenged to be better than I was the day before," Welch says. "By going through this, I'm developing into a leader."
At most college programs, basketball is the most rigorous and scheduled part of an athlete's life. At the academy, it's just another thing to add to the pile.
"Sometimes I'll see the look on their faces that says, 'I was up until 5 a.m. studying, I've got practice and exams and someone chewed me out this morning,"' coach Jeff Bzdelik says. "I know then that I should ease my foot off the gas."

The Falcons will be hoping against hope this afternoon to see if they make it to the Big Dance. If they don't, it won't be the end of the world. Their life is just beginning.

On running a Bed and Breakfast

Well, we just got back from a seminar in Camden, Maine, on how to start and run a bed & breakfast. We had a great time. We stayed at the Timbercliffe Cottage B&B, along with 4 other couples. The seminar was called Inn Your Dreams and was conducted by Don Johnson, a veteran in the Maine B&B scene, having owned and run his own inns for 12 years and now in the brokerage business.

Since we're thinking of running our own B&B when we retire in seven years, we thought it would be a good idea to find out more about the whole business and see if it's what we really want to do. Inn Your Dreams was a great way to do that. Don began by giving us a quiz to see if we've got the right temperament and personalities to be innkeepers, and took us through the whole process, including finding the right B&B, buying it, shopping for supplies, pricing the rooms, and then the daily demands of running it. In the afternoons, we went on tours of the local B&Bs to get ideas to use in our own inns. Overall, Inn Your Dreams was a great investment for our future career. Don was thorough in his training and brought in a few experts in various fields, such as financing and webpage design, to enhance the experience. We'd highly suggest the seminar for anyone interested in running their own inn someday.

Another facet to Inn Your Dreams that made it very rewarding was the fact that we actually stayed in a local B&B. In this case, our hosts were Karen and Dave Kallstrand at the Timbercliffe Cottage (as mentioned above). We stayed in the Chauncey Keep Chamber, the best room in the inn. The room had a beautiful view of Penobscot Bay and felt very cozy with a warm fireplace. Karen was an excellent cook, providing delicious gourmet breakfasts every morning. Dave and Karen went out of their way to provide that "home away from home" experience. And of course, Caffrey, the Kallstrand's golden retriever, offered her own hospitality by greeting everyone by the dining room. Timbercliffe's common areas offered a great place for guests to sit and visit with each other, drinking coffee or wine by the fire.

Christine and I were very glad that we took this opportunity to learn more about innkeeping. It made us even more eager to start on the next stage in our lives after the Air Force.

Amazing Grace

Not sure if you noticed, but there was a movie that opened this past weekend that actually has a great message, as opposed to most of the movies that were celebrating at the Oscars last night. "Amazing Grace" is a movie you can take the kids to, a movie that will teach you some history, and a movie that is trying to make a change right now.

"Amazing Grace", by Walden Media, opened to just 791 screens, yet finished the weekend with the 3rd highest take per screen. On the Hugh Hewitt show, producer Ken Wales said that at a screening in Washington, D.C. on the National Day of Prayer, viewers were in tears at the end of the movie. Viewers at a screening in New York were moved to give a 4-minute standing ovation at the end.

Alex Field at Relevant Magazine has a great review of the movie. He also tells about a movement called The Amazing Change Campaign, which aims to fight against modern-day slavery. One interesting fact you might not know is that more people are in slavery today than at any other time in history. Field writes...

. . .less than two years ago the International Labor Organization, an agency charged by the United Nations to address labor standards and social protection, estimated that there were 12.3 million people enslaved through forced labor, bonded labor, forced child labor, sexual servitude and other forms of involuntary servitude. The ILO also reported data showing that roughly 600,000 to 800,000 men, women and children are trafficked across international borders each year, 80 percent of whom are women and girls.

Even more recently, Kevin Bales, the president of an organization called Free the Slaves, conducted a study at the University of Roehampton, the findings of which say that there are actually about 27 million people enslaved around the world today.

This is a movie you can take your family or a friend to, with plenty of things to talk about afterward. And plenty of things to do to help fight slavery today.

A religion of peace?

Grant Swank has a great commentary at The Conservative Voice about how Christians are increasingly being attacked in Muslim countries, with authorities turning a blind eye, passing on the story of a 78-year-old Christian man in Egypt who was killed while at church. A Muslim stormed into the church with two long knives and stabbed several people, shouting "god is great!"

When these atrocities occur, little if nothing is done by the authorities. They too are extremist Muslim. They too read the Koran and its demands that non-Muslims be put out. Therefore, why should Christians be guarded when they are to be extinguished?

What free nations need to realize is that Christians living in these conditions elsewhere put up with this murderous threat every day of their lives. It is not just an occasional trap. It could happen any day, any hour, any time. Christian children are brought up to be on the watch for fear of their lives.

Again, in free countries Muslims demand freedom of religion. They expect freedom to erect their mosques, have their clerics teach whatever they want to preach, hold their secret meetings, run their propaganda-filled web sites and see through the eventual Islam World Rule.

On Muslim web sites, for instance there are stark warnings to Muslims to watch out for persecution in free nations. They are instructed step by step how to report any discrimination and then press for immediate, accurate action.

However, when Christians are slain in a Muslim country such as Egypt, it’s over and out for the Christians. Another life lost. So it goes. It’s just another "Christian story."

Swank goes on to describe the dangers that women, both Muslim and non-Muslim, face in Islamic countries.

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan in a recent report said that violence against women had increased alarmingly, with some of the incidents incited by Mullahs opposed to women’s emancipation.

"Islamists also campaigned against the Women Protection Bill which was recently passed by parliament, which seeks to provide protection to women who have suffered discrimination under Islamic Sharia laws.

"Women make up just over 20 per cent of the lower house of parliament, according to the country’s main human rights group, and there are three women ministers in the cabinet of the federal government. But widespread discrimination against females continues to be a problem in what remains a male-dominated society, particularly in the countryside, where most Pakistanis live."

It is time for "moderate" Muslims to step up in countries where they can speak freely and speak out against the atrocities that so-called extremist Muslims are committing against mankind. If they don't speak out soon, there will be no need to use the word "extremist" when describing these terrorists.

The Striptease of William and Mary

A few months ago, I posted an article about the College of William and Mary removing the cross from their chapel so that all students of every religious persuasion would feel welcome in the building. Well, the college is in the headlines again. CNSNews.com tellsof how they recently welcomed "The Sex Workers' Art Show" to campus.

The show is described as "an eye-popping evening of visual and performance art created by people in the sex industry to dispel the myth that they are anything short of artists, innovators, and geniuses."

When college President Gene Nichol was confronted by students and alumni over his decision to allow the show, he was quoted as saying, "I don't like this kind of show, but it is not the practice ... of universities to censor or cancel performances because they are controversial."

But critics of Nichol's decision late last year to remove from the university's Wren Chapel a cross that had been located there since 1940 called his latest stance hypocritical.

He can't stop this so-called art show, but he can censor Christians' displays. Wonder how this latest action (or lack of action on the president's part) will affect alumni donations.

Photo of the Week

You gotta start training them early...

The New Devil

When I was growing up, my father, a minister, would preach about the need for taking personal responsibility for sins that we commit. He would talk about how people loved to blame something or someone else for the mistakes they made, citing the song lyrics, "The Devil made me do it."

In a recent "Breakpoint" article, Charles Colson discusses the new "Devil". Now, our society blames their failings on a variety of causes--alcohol, stress, racism, sexual abuse by priests, a bad childhood--everything but ourselves.

If you ever doubted the complete triumph of the therapeutic culture in America, look no further than this week’s news. Take NASA for example. How did it respond to the sad and bizarre story involving a love triangle and an astronaut charged with attempted murder? It wants to tighten psychological screening procedures for astronauts! Now, I find it hard to imagine more rigorous screenings than those already given to naval aviators and astronauts.

How about sin? It doesn’t take rocket science to figure out what happens when you crowd attractive men and women into a space capsule.

Or take the recent case of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. Following his election in 2003, Newsom was considered a rising political star. Times have changed: Now, he’s the butt of late-night comedians’ jokes, and his political future is, at best, uncertain.

A few weeks ago, Newsom confirmed reports that he was involved in an affair with his campaign manager’s wife. He claimed that he was “deeply sorry about that,” but then announced that he was “seeking counseling for alcohol abuse.”

“Upon reflection” he told reporters, “I have come to the conclusion that I will be a better person without alcohol in my life.”

His three key words: How about sin? In today's postmodernism, where right and wrong are in the eye of the beholder, sin has no place in the discussion. The concept of sin implies a standard. A standard implies an authority that is higher than ourselves. And man's nature is to rebel against authority.

Here's an ironic thought: all of the daytime talkshows like to urge us to just look within ourselves for strength during adversity. No need to appeal to a higher power for help. It's right there inside of us. But yet when we fall short and just plain screw up, it is no longer ourself that is to blame. It's [fill in your excuse here] that's to blame. In the end, though, we will all be held responsible for our own actions. God help us all.

Now that's a model airplane!

Got this in an email from an Air Force friend of mine. Not sure who the guys in the photo and video are, but they sure do take their hobby seriously. From the text of the email...

A B-52 flying model with 22 foot wingspan! Actually has 8 "real turbines" at about $1500 each! Took over 2 years to build. Takes multiple pilots, as there are so many things to control.

Click HERE to see the video of its first flight. It's 8 minutes long, but pretty cool.

The inconvenient truth

After all the publicity that the recently released Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change summary of its upcoming report on how man is causing global warming, you'd think that the sky is falling. However, in it's most recent editorial, National Review Online has actually done a little research and comparison with the last such report released by the IPCC in 2001. NRO's take on it is quite a bit different than what the media frenzy this past week would have you believe.

The shock, however, is that the latest summary contains very little that was not in the IPCC’s last report, in 2001. Moreover, what is new represents a pullback from the gloomier claims of 2001. Notwithstanding the authors’ bold assertion of 95-percent confidence that human activity influences global warming, it appears from this short summary of the full 1,400-page report — which, inexplicably, the IPCC won’t release until May — that there has been only slight progress over the past five years in refining our climate models and resolving key uncertainties acknowledged in the last report.

Gone from the latest summary is the infamous “hockey stick” of the 2001 report. This was a graphic purporting to show that the planet is warmer today than at any time in the last thousand years, a demonstration which required erasing the inconvenient medieval warm period and the little ice age. The new IPCC report has also reduced its estimate of the human influence on warming by one-third (though this change was not flagged for the media, so few if any news accounts took notice of it). That reduction is one reason the IPCC narrowed the range of predicted future warming, and lowered the new midpoint — i.e., the most likely prediction of temperature increase — by a half degree, from 3.5 degrees Celsius in 2001 to 3 degrees in this report. The new assessment also cuts in half the range of predicted sea-level rise over the next century. Now the maximum prediction is about 17 inches, as compared with the 20 to 30 feet Al Gore dramatizes in his horror film. (Which truths are inconvenient now?) There are murmurs from the green warriors that the new report is a disappointment, and no wonder.

Interesting that the IPCC released the summary so far ahead of releasing the actual report. Call me cynical, but methinks that by releasing the summary with such Chicken Little drama, the IPCC is hoping that no one will actually pay attention to what the report says. The IPCC has achieved its desired effect, which is to put politics in front of science in an attempt to get politicians to make a knee-jerk, shallow-minded reaction in their never-ending quest to appease the voting masses.

GO BEARS!!!

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Black History Month

LaShawn Barber has a great column at The Examiner.com which suggests that instead of focusing on the past and the wrongs that were committed against blacks, let's look at the state of blacks now and work to strengthen the black family. Barber examines the life of the man who began the observance of Black History Month, Carter G. Woodson. And then she asks what he'd think if he saw the state of black society today.

First, I believe Woodson would be appalled by the rate of black-on-black crime. Black men kill other black men at disproportionate rates. At 13 percent of the U.S. population, blacks commit more than half the reported murders. White lynch mobs from back in the day have got nothing on modern day black thugs, who make sport out of preying on their own people.

Second, Woodson would shake his head in disbelief at the devastating collapse of the black family, caused by immorality, not white racism. In 1963, more than 70 percent of black families were headed by married couples. In 2005, 35 percent of black children were living with two parents, compared to 84 percent of Asian children, 76 percent of white children, and 65 percent of Hispanic children.

Seventy percent of black boys in the criminal justice system come from single-parent homes. Fatherlessness is correlated with criminality, poverty and low academic achievement. Fatherless children are more likely to beget fatherless children — and the cycle continues.

Third, the institutionalized and deeply ingrained system of government-mandated lowered standards for blacks would infuriate Woodson. Born in 1875 during Reconstruction to a poor family with nine children, Woodson couldn’t attend school regularly because he had to work to help support the family.

After years of working and going to school when he could, the son of former slaves received a B.A. in literature and became a teacher. He studied at the Sorbonne University in Paris, received a master’s from the University of Chicago in 1908, and a Ph.D. in history from Harvard University in 1912 — all accomplished without race preferences.

Woodson would be ashamed, I’d imagine, to see blacks advocating race preferences and fighting to maintain the position that blacks cannot be expected to compete with people of other races.

He would be deeply disappointed to hear them tell the world that blacks living in the greatest country in the world are the weakest people in the world, unable to achieve anything without the help of a patronizingly paternal central government.

The key phrase was that the collapse of the black family has been caused by "immorality, not white racism." By saying that, Barber forces blacks to take responsibility for their own failings and doesn't let them blame someone else. It's always easier to blame someone else for your own screwups. But in the end, God calls each of us to account for our own lives and won't accept "but look at what they did to me" as an answer.

What the Left really thinks about the military

This article by William Arkin at the Washington Post reminds us of how liberals really view the military.

These soldiers should be grateful that the American public, which by all polls overwhelmingly disapproves of the Iraq war and the President's handling of it, do still offer their support to them, and their respect.

Through every Abu Ghraib and Haditha, through every rape and murder, the American public has indulged those in uniform, accepting that the incidents were the product of bad apples or even of some administration or command order.

Sure it is the junior enlisted men who go to jail, but even at anti-war protests, the focus is firmly on the White House and the policy. We just don't see very man "baby killer" epithets being thrown around these days, no one in uniform is being spit upon.

So, we pay the soldiers a decent wage, take care of their families, provide them with housing and medical care and vast social support systems and ship obscene amenities into the war zone for them, we support them in every possible way, and their attitude is that we should in addition roll over and play dead, defer to the military and the generals and let them fight their war, and give up our rights and responsibilities to speak up because they are above society?

Mr. Arkin must not have heard about Corporal Joshua Sparling from the 82nd Airborne, a recent amputee who showed up at last weekend's "peace" protests in Washington DC to counter-protest. Myron Pitts from FayObserver.com writes about how protesters spit on Corporal Sparling.

Sparling says the peace protestors were anything but peaceful. He was called names, cussed at and physically threatened, he says.

“The majority were being negative to us,” he says. “A minority were just walking by and saying, ‘peace.’ ”

On Tuesday morning, he was telling his story on “Fox & Friends,” the FoxNews network’s morning show. He told the Fox anchors that he was spit on. (He denies a report in the New York Times that he spit back.)

“I’m sick of everybody going and saying they’re looking out for me,” he says of anti-war protesters. “It was my choice to volunteer.”

Terror-free Oil

Sorry it's been a little while since my last post. It's been a little hectic with family visiting and travel for work. Here's an article about a gas station in Omaha, NE, that is claiming to sell terror-free oil.

A southwest Omaha gas station now named Terror-Free Oil is intended to send a message that consumers who buy gasoline refined from crude oil from countries associated with terrorism "are purchasing our own demise," said the spokesman of a group that will own and run the former Sinclair station.

"The easiest thing for people to do is to not purchase their gasoline from companies that purchase oil from the Middle East," said Joe Kaufman, spokesman of the Florida-based group, also called Terror-Free Oil, founded about six months ago.

While it's doubtful that one gas station will make a dent in the country's use of crude oil from the Middle East, I like that they've got the guts to take a stand. Wish more companies did.

Falcons win nailbiter

They did it again! Air Force beat Wyoming by hitting a layup at the buzzer to win by 2. Read all about it here.

Warren Nolan has a great site that tracks all kinds of college basketball streaks and records for the season, along with team and conference RPIs. It's updated all the time. You'll notice how many lists Air Force is on. This is turning out to be an amazing season.

Christians in China

This is a theme that I plan on covering quite a bit in the near future. While on Christmas vacation, I bought a book titled "Jesus in Beijing", by David Aikman. I've only read a few pages so far, but it is a great book. It is amazing how Christianity is spreading throughout China, even in the Communist Party. When I begin reading it, I will give summaries of each chapter here.

So it was interesting when I saw this article last week, right after I had gotten the book. Journal Chretien tells of how Chinese police raided a Bible study meeting in a Communist Party school on 1 January. This came after the Chinese government admitted that there are now 130 million Christians in China.

"On January 1, 2007 a group of Christians gathered in an office in the Party School where the cadres of the Communist Party in Baoding City are trained to celebrate New Year by studying the Bible," the [China Aid Association] CAA said. However, "they were besieged and raided by local Public Security Bureau officers," the group added.

It said over 40 Christians were taken away for questioning, but that most of them were released in the evening. Those released several days later included the host of the Bible study group and the Party School’s Vice President Geng Sude and prominent Beijing activist Li Baiguang, CAA said.

CAA said it also established that on January 4, local police attacked a Christian gathering in Fangcheng County of Henan province.

"Three Christians were brought to the police station. Two of them were released the same day, while the other one, brother An Wenqing, a house church seminary lecturer, was released on January 5 after being interrogated for 14 hours by the police," CAA added.

However despite the attacks, Christianity continues to spread in China said CAA, citing official sources.

"Mr. Yie Xiaowen, the director of the Chinese State Administration for Religious Affairs, said in two internal meetings held in Beijing University and Chinese Academy of Social Science respectively, that the number of Christians in China has reached 130 million now, including 20 million Catholics. The Chinese government often underestimates the number of religious believers in its officially released figure."

Bob Fu, a former house church pastor and current CAA president, told BosNewsLife that, "The unprecedented growth of the Chinese church has happened under ceaseless persecution." He said his supporters, "pray that China will realize true religious freedom soon."

Air Force stages amazing comeback!!!

Down by 21 at one point in the first half, Air Force (15-1) rallied in the second to win by 8 points against New Mexico. The Lobos were on fire during the first half, hitting 3 after 3. And the Falcons couldn't have been colder. In fact, they didn't reach 10 points until there were only 6:52 left in the half. The only bright point in the first half was that the Lobos were racking up the fouls, so that Air Force was in double bonus by the end of the half. And the fouls continued into the second half. New Mexico ended up with 20 fouls and 3 players with 4 fouls each. The Falcons took advantage of it, hitting 21 of 23 from the line. Air Force's biggest lead was 12, occurring several times.

The win extends 15th-ranked Air Force's home winning streak to 25, still third-best in the nation. It also extended their winning streak to 12, second-best in the nation. And their 15 wins give Air Force the third-most wins in the nation.

UPDATE: 21:17: Here is the Albuquerque Tribune's take on the game.