At Duke vs. Ohio Game Tonight

Submitted by True Blue in CO on
I am attending the Duke vs. Ohio BBall game tonight on some free tickets. Looking forward to a good college basketball game. However I am very conflicted as I will not root for either team. Who would you root for and why in this situation? P.S. At least there are no speeches being planned by Urban Meyer. Heard Thad Motta did not want to be upstaged.

Darth Wolverine

November 29th, 2011 at 7:32 PM ^

I live in this shitty state called Ohio and have been lambasted with this jackass fans all my life. They deserve nothing but the worst heartbreak out of any fanbase. 

Go Duke.

ak47

November 29th, 2011 at 7:35 PM ^

In terms of whats best for michigan if we wind up on the bubble you root for ohio, we play them twice and only duke once, so we want them to be the better of the two, ideally we aren't on the bubble and some new ncaa rule about nobody liking you causes both teams to lose.

kehnonymous

November 29th, 2011 at 7:53 PM ^

Seconded on asteroid.  Hell, I live only a few miles away from the Schottenstein, and I'd still be ok with asteroid.

If I had to make a choice, I'd go with Duke, since my brother went there for undergrad.  That said, I don't dislike OSU's hoops team *that* much as they all seem to be decent guys - Sullinger strikes me as a pretty cool dude.  He's happy to see his HS teammate Trey do well and rooted for us to make the NCAA Tournament last year after his team beat us.

Oscar

November 29th, 2011 at 9:42 PM ^

Rooting for OSU, I hate Duke and the ACC (basketball) as much as I hate the SEC (football).  Duke winning is bad for our conference strength.  Best case scenario for us, OSU destroys Duke, then we destroy OSU.

Oscar

November 29th, 2011 at 10:26 PM ^

you know, I almost knew I was going to get negged for that post.  i think the majority of this blog is full of people will a bad case of homerism.  while there is nothing wrong with pulling for your team, irrationalism seems to prevail more often than not.  And I'm sure this will get negged, which will just prove my point.

MGoBeer

November 29th, 2011 at 10:24 PM ^

Duke is shaken. If they shot like this against us, we would have won comfortably.  I give all the credit to the Buckeyes though. They look like a pro-team