Dive-bombing bat turns basketball game into towel-throwing melee

Whoever had the foresight to load the "Batman" theme on the Bradley Center sound system should be put on scholarship immediately. Every star needs entrance music, and the star of the Providence-Marquette basketball game was definitely the bat that took over the action, swooping over the court and stopping everything. Providence coach Ed Cooley took cover under a towel; players ducked and hurled their own towels at the intruder. Finally, arena workers dimmed the lights and the bat settled in the rafters, but not before it spawned its own Twitter account. "Who votes to make me the new mascot?" tweeted Marquette Bat. "I think I scared the other team more than the Golden Eagle." [Source]

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