You may not like Harvard because it busted your bracket going for the fake Buffet Billions. Even non-math types knew there was a statistical joke going on with Buffet having the edge. You hit a 1 in 9.2 quintillion shot and Buffet only pays you a billion? Sucker. It makes the lottery seem reasonable. And that’s madness.
But that’s all right, because Harvard in the NCAA made me watch. It’s not often the overdogs get to be the underdogs, except in the NCAA tournament where Harvard turned us all into dreamers.
With a starting five of four African-Americans, the team almost gave Michigan State a real scare. The Crimson played nerdy at first, but then tied the game with nine minutes to go. It was like a reading period revival ready to ace the entire year. But then, slowly, the team realized it wasn’t going to get there.
What the hell. They’re still Harvards, right?
But was it time to break out the “I, too, am Harvard” selfie?
If you’re not familiar with the #ItooamHarvard phenomenon, it was started by Kimiko Matsuda-Lawrence, a sophomore who noticed that the Ivy League school was still full of thorns for people of color.
The pictures show some of Harvard’s African-American students holding up a sign with an outrageous quote directed at them during their Harvard experience.
