This has been an interesting year for me as a college basketball fan. My favorite team, my alma mater, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) has been struggling a bit this year and is currently enjoying a winning streak in the NIT tournament. The NIT is sometimes known as the loser's tournament. This is a big disappointment to me and all those other fans who saw us win it all last year and figure that a trip to the NCAA tournament is a birthright. Humbling.
But maybe this year I was pulling for the wrong alma mater. My other alma mater, where I went to graduate school, is doing surprisingly well. Amazingly well, in fact. Cornell University will play Kentucky tonight, in Syracuse, in the first round of the sweet sixteen of the NCAA tournament. This is the first time in 30 years that an Ivy League team has made it this far. And historically it's always been Princeton or Penn, that made it. If memory serves me correctly, Princeton knocked off UNC to get there back in '79.
Anyhow, for the first time this season, I'll be watching and pulling for my other alma mater as they take on the highly favored Kentucky Wildcats. Maybe it will turn out to be a better basketball season that I thought.
!!Go Big Red!!
Update: It didn't happen (62-45). Cornell started good and played them respectable but it didn't happen. Oh well, back to the NIT.
Update: It didn't happen (62-45). Cornell started good and played them respectable but it didn't happen. Oh well, back to the NIT.
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