By Harry Minium
When the Old Dominion University basketball team took the floor minutes before tipoff Saturday night, the fans who clapped and cheered could barely be heard over the music.
That's not their fault. There were only 250 of them scattered amidst Chartway Arena's 8,500 seats.
Sitting atop Chartway Arena in a luxury suite, ODU superfan Ray Wittersheim was determined to be heard. And he was.
He barked at the team several times – a bark so primitive that I can't quite find the words to describe it – to make sure they knew there were indeed fans here.