Big Red Machine

Today, a team full of white boys from the Ivy League (and Lou Dale, who is having the games of his life) beat the living crap out of the Fresh Prince of Madison (pictured) and the rest of the Wisconsin Badgers.

The result of this, as you might have expected, is that Andy Bernard became a trending topic on Twitter.

Make no mistake about it. Cornell basketball is good. Maybe they're shooting a bit over their heads, but if they can keep up shooting like this, they have a real shot at turning the Number one Wildcats into Kentucky Fried Chicken. So stay tuned.

And why not? This tournament already saw Kansas, Nova, Georgetown and other unbeatables fall to mid-to-low seeds from mid-to-low majors. Why not us?

This weekend featured the first two tournament victories ever for Cornell (by 13 and 18 points over two top-20 teams, natch) and a Sweet Sixteen berth which I would never have believed when I was back in college. Men's hockey won the ECAC Championship. And Women's hockey lost a heartbreaker in 3OTs in the National championship game. But even with that second place there, this is an absolutely unprecedented weekend in the annals of Ivy League athletics.

As my buddy Per said, "I'm this close to challenging the Yalie across the street to a game of checkers for his heated parking space. WE ARE INVINCIBLE."