It’s legit. In the short term; keep on feeling good. In fact, take the quotes off the title of this post. Harvard making the NCAA basketball tournament for the first time in 60 some odd years is fucking awesome.
Though, if there’s one thing the Jeremy Lin story has taught me, it’s that we don’t need to root for Harvard guys. They are going to be OK regardless. Yes, that includes their hoops team. Maybe the vast majority won’t be NBA players. However, they will find a job in the NBA corporate office, or something. I’m not concerned for their well-being.
Still, Harvard, in the basketball arena, is a “little guy.” It’s fun to root for those types of teams come March. Maybe a run in the tourney by an Ivy League team wouldn’t be quite the same as previous runs by Gonzaga, Butler, Virginia Commonwelth or George Mason.
That said, one of the best parts of the above teams March runs is how the universities were able to keep their head coaches in place. Of course, this bliss can often only last so long.
