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MIDNIGHT MADNESS (21)

by Donald Cantrell

Scripture: Mark 14:32-72
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Title: Midnight Madness (21)
Series: Gospel of Mark
Author: Donald Cantrell
Text: Mark 14:32-72

Gospel of Mark Commentary Series

I - The Lord's Burden (32 - 42)

II - The Lord's Betrayal (43 - 52)

III - The Lord's Blasphemers (53 - 65)

IV - The Lord's Besmirching (66 - 72)

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What Is Midnight Madness?

In 1982, coach Joe B. Hall and the Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team began to officially promote a celebration dubbed "Midnight Madness" as a school event with formal entertainment acts and an invited student audience. This event was held in Memorial Coliseum and held 8,500 people in the then-12,500 seat gym.

Big Blue Madness is now televised and hosts celebrities including Drake, who performed in 2014. Another of the more famous events is "Late Night in the Phog" at Kansas, which was started in 1985 by Larry Brown and is now broadcast in live streaming video via the Internet.

The event has caught on, on most campuses; various programs have given away T-shirts and allowed players do stunt dunks and half court shots. Some schools schedule intrasquad scrimmages, three-point shooting contests and/or slam dunk contests. The event is often a co-ed event, in which both the men's and women's teams participate in the celebration, especially at schools like the University of Connecticut, where the men's and women's teams have a combined 15 championships.

Scout.com estimated that in 2007, approximately 160 of the top blue chip high school basketball recruits in the country were attending a Midnight Madness event during the weekend that opens the basketball season.

Midnight Madness begins on the closest Friday to October 15th, which is when teams can actually begin their legal practices. When Jesus and his men marched out into the night, midnight was approaching, signifying that later on that morning, the Lord would accomplish his goal of dying for man's sins. It seemed ...

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