Now if you were like me coming into Marquette as a freshman, you checked out the list of intramural sports offered just after you looked through the amazing list of dorms available. Basketball, football, kickball, volleyball, innertube water polo, soccer – wait, did I just read innertube water polo? You bet your bottom dollar, there is no stupid crap or spite involved in this game. It's just you, an innertube and a ball floatin' around in the water.

It's just a shame the interest in the sport evaporates once the "water polo . that's awesome" thought moves to the back of your head. It could be because you don't know how easy it is to play, or that you don't know if you can get an entire six people to show up to the games.

Sunday is most certainly the designated "cram an entire week's worth of studying and homework into one day," but with games lasting a whole 30 minutes between 8 and 10 p.m. Sunday, you know that 30 minutes is not cutting into study time. No, that would be "I don't want to study so I will check to see how many people have the same last name as me on Facebook" time.

The game is basically basketball/soccer in water and with your butt in the hole of an innertube. Teams consist of six people in the water, and at least three of the six must be female. When the whistle blows the two teams paddle after the ball in the middle of the pool. Points are scored by throwing the ball past the other team's goalie and into the goal, with men's goals counting as one point, and women's goals as two points. The main rule is you need to be in your tube to pass or shoot the ball, and this is where the sport gets interesting. Flipping your opponent's tube is legal by pushing the tube down when they have possession of the ball, and if a goalie falls out of their tube to block a shot then a point is awarded to the offensive team. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins.

There is an extension on the due date for rosters to get turned in – Wednesday by 4 p.m. Blank rosters can be picked up and turned in at the intramural office in the Rec Center and need to have the names in alphabetical order. Play begins Feb. 11. It probably won't help your resume, but later on your kids might ask what sport you played in college. Make it innertube water polo.

Koscielak is a junior in the College of Health Sciences.