Oh, You Crazy ACC Kids

If you ever want to see something funny, get a bunch of college kids from Duke and a bunch more from North Carolina together around March. Apparently both schools are on break at the moment, and both have sent contingents of students down to Camp Hope. This is all well and good. However, it is March. We are in the midst of college basketball season; conference tournaments are going on as we speak, and the NCAA Tournament is not far away (For those of you who don't follow basketball, the rivalry between Duke and UNC can be equated with Hatfield vs McCoy, Montague vs Capulet, Yankees vs Red Sox...these two schools HATE everything about each other). So for somebody like me (a Pitt fan with a considerable amount of antipathy for both) it is quite amusing to witness the hateful glares and occasional calls of 'UNC sucks' and 'Fuck Duke' that are inevitable whenever groups of their students pass each other. Shame that they'll be gone when the tournament proper begins; that would be very entertaining.

While I'm on the topic, Pitt is still alive and well in the Big East. Despite their general dominance in inter-conference play (including a brilliant last-second comeback win over Duke a couple months ago), Pitt has an infuriating tendency to choke and lose to mediocre Big East teams, especially at home. With any luck, we'll be able to make a good showing in the Big East tourney, maybe even mount a run against Georgetown. But seriously tho, Pitt...please don't fuck it up.