By Brittany Burke
I’ll be the first one to admit it – I am not a basketball fan. Yes, I root for the Celtics because I am addicted to NESN and had to even out my Boston to New York team ratio, but I am by no means an expert.
Like any other college student I am also busy. There aren’t enough hours in a day to get done what I need to get done and I continuously realize this as I’m sipping on my coffee writing my column at 11 p.m. on a Monday night…again.
Call it bad time management if you will, but I blame the fact that there are merely 24 hours in a day and while I consider my life hectic, as editor of this section I feel bad for not making it to more basketball games.
I made it through an entire women’s season last year when I covered the team, but since I get to pick and choose which stories I want I embrace hockey and cast aside basketball (soon to be baseball – you can’t blame me for not loving the game, I’m a Mets fan).
As the season is coming closer and closer to the time of NEC Championships I have to take the time and applaud those students who have found the time to make it over to the Detrick Gymnasium and support the Blue Devils.
These past few columns I’ve been warning readers of what type of fan not to be, but this week I’ve chosen to go a different route.
As I walked back to my dorm room the night of the televised game I passed more than a handful of CCSU students who were proudly donning the white and blue CCSU colors. Not only were the students actually wearing things that said CCSU, but they had gone the extra mile to paint their faces as a way of showing support.
This type of fanaticism shouldn’t be ridiculed by anyone, especially me, and especially in a fairly small school such as CCSU. I am used to seeing the body painters on televised college games, but it’s always refreshing to see on the CCSU campus.
Like I confessed at the beginning of this column, I haven’t actually been to a basketball game since the beginning of the season, but I can tell you I haven’t passed people that enthused by a game once this season. If anything I saw fans that excited for the season opener, but they were all for UHart.
Maybe people were that excited because the game was televised (who wouldn’t want to try and see themselves on TV?) or maybe the Blue Devils have been drawing fans like that the entire season and I’ve just been blind to it.
Either way, the excitement is something the fans should consider carrying over as the teams reach the chance to play for the NEC title. I wouldn’t even mind some of the crazy behavior I’ve been writing about the past couple of weeks.
Well, I don’t condone tackling Victor E or having a bunch of “fan girls” descend on the gym, but it would make life interesting.
