I’m sitting here watching Davidson/Kansas (Davidson 51-47 with 7:35 left, for those scoring at home) and my 10-year-old Elizabeth looks up at the television.
Remember, Elizabeth came with me to the regionals at Gettysburg earlier this month and got a real up-close look at what Division III is like as well as what I do on the site.
Elizabeth: “What’s that? It’s basketball, but what division?”
Me: “It’s Division I”
Elizabeth: “Oh. That explains why it’s on TV.”
(Smart girl! And she just closed my parentheses for me. After a pause …)
Elizabeth: “So what’s Division II?”
Me: “Good question”
Then I explained to her that Division II has some scholarships, etc., etc., and she said, “Oh. So it’s second-best.”
I didn’t ask her which was best. Hopefully she knows. 🙂
Kansas on a 10-2 run, unfortunately.
11-2 run.
Now I’ll stop so I don’t arouse the NCAA blogging police. Oh, whoops, 12-2.
Of course, since it is now several weeks later, we know now how that Davidson/Kansas game ended. Kansas was just too much for Davidson, for NC and for Memphis when they couldn’t shoot free throws down the stretch. But I remember watching the Davidson/Kansas game and how commentors were going on and on about how Davidson was such a great school because of their emphasis on academics and their atheletes had to take the same classes as everyone else and they looked like all the other students walking around campus. Not to take anything away from Davidson which I am sure is a fine school but I was a bit upset because all they have to do is attend a DIII tournament and see the same thing. At all the schools. In every sport.