Friday, March 27, 2009

Day Eighty-Six: 19 years to go?

It's March Madness, and the Kansas Jayhawks are the defending national champions. Last year, 40,000 poured out on to Mass Street to celebrate the overtime win. Last year, the University canceled classes to allow students to celebrate. Last year, the nerds and the jocks were friends, all uniting around the dream that was finally reached after twenty long years. None of that will be happening this year. With 32.4 seconds left to go and down by two, the tension was high. But despite the valliant effort and leading most of the game, the Jayhawks fell (for the second time this season) to the Michigan State Spartans, ending all dreams of repeating the victory. We must give a shout out to the boys in blue though. They exceeded our wildest expectations and gave us a post-season stint longer than we could have expected at the beginning of the season.

The Jayhawks won a National Championship in 1988. Twenty years later, we won again. Hopefully, we don't have 19 more years to go....