This is my yearly reminder of what college basketball means in my hometown of Dayton, Ohio.It Just Means More®to those of us who were born in the Miami Valley. Our ancestors loved the Dayton Flyers. That love for college basketball extended into the suburbs when Wright State built a massive arena in 1990 for a team that became D1 in 1987 that played in the shadow of UD.
Can Wright State get its first ever NCAA win this year? The Raiders have guards. How do teams win in the NCAA? Guard play. I'm not calling an early upset here, but remember the name TJ Burch.
It's always amusing when I hear of someone shocked that Dayton is on TV ratings lists like this one. We truly do live for college basketball. Do people in Dayton care about the NBA? Barely. When I was growing up, the only NBA games we saw were the Bulls on WGN and the Hawks on TBS. Outside of that, it was whatever the national outlets gave us.
The only Cleveland Cavaliers games I ever saw growing up with TimeWarner cable were when MJ was beating their asses.
High school and college basketball were our pro teams. That tradition continues.
— Chris B. in Florida reminds me:
The first two days of March Madness are the busiest days of the year for vasectomies too (my doctor told me). Schedule an early morning appointment, and it’s "Sorry, Honey, the doctor said I have to sit on the couch all weekend."
—Speaking of basketball, Mike in Nevada has a problem with last night's 83-point game from Bam Adebayo:
First time, long time and not sure why, of all things, this story is what prompted me to email, but for an odd reason I find myself defending Kobe's 81 versus Bam's 83 (which, for the record, unlike Kobe's night against Toronto I couldn't care less of today's NBA and haven't watched in years but couldn't avoid the headlines).
Solely based on position and comparing box scores...
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