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Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the NCAA lies a small, unregarded basketball conference.
Orbiting this at a distance of roughly 882 miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-gold university whose warrior-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think an online message forum is a pretty neat idea.
This university has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the wins and losses of a basketball program, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the basketball program that was unhappy.
And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, especially the ones on the online message forums.
Over the next 10 days, the odds are very good that we will lose three basketball games. If this happens, there is nothing wrong at all with our basketball program. We are playing two road games against teams ranked in the top-12 of the AP Poll, teams that have lost a combined one game at home all season long, and that game was to the team ranked #1 in the country at the time. The third game is against that team, which will likely come into the game ranked #2 in the country.
There is no shame in losing any of these. All three are tough games, and this is the toughest collection of three consecutive games we've seen since January 22-29, 2011. If we lose all three, we will be in just as good a position to make the tournament as we are now, which is a solid bubble team. There aren't many teams in the country that would be favored to win even one of these games.
So let's all try to relax, enjoy the basketball, and most important, DON'T PANIC. And if we do manage to win one, we can all meet to celebrate at the Restaurant at the end of the University.
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Over the next 10 days, the odds are very good that we will lose three basketball games. If this happens, there is nothing wrong at all with our basketball program. We are playing two road games against teams ranked in the top-12 of the AP Poll, teams that have lost a combined one game at home all season long, and that game was to the team ranked #1 in the country at the time. The third game is against that team, which will likely come into the game ranked #2 in the country.
There is no shame in losing any of these. All three are tough games, and this is the toughest collection of three consecutive games we've seen since January 22-29, 2011. If we lose all three, we will be in just as good a position to make the tournament as we are now, which is a solid bubble team. There aren't many teams in the country that would be favored to win even one of these games.
So let's all try to relax, enjoy the basketball, and most important, DON'T PANIC. And if we do manage to win one, we can all meet to celebrate at the Restaurant at the end of the University.
Lame. If we don't go 3-0 you are lame and so is the whole Marquette university.
#teal #sarcasm
#JusKiddingButSeriouslySweatervestsWillBePissedIfWeAreNotRankedNumber1