We're the geeky, dorky kids - well liked, but we're not the super cool clique by any means. And all of the sudden - we find ourselves invited to the really cool kids party.
Sometimes we don't get invited anywhere (no post season), sometimes we get together with our neighborhood friends we grew up with (NIT) and sometimes we get invited to other partys (getting the at-large NCAAT bid). But making it to the round of 16? Well, that's for the cool, rich kids. We don't usually get to hang out in that clique.
Until this year. We there! With all the really cool kids.
The rich Dooks are there, the popular Arizona, Louisville and Wisconsin are there, the 'peaked in high school' Michigan State and Oklahoma jocks, the preppy UNC and Notre Dame are there, some of the edgy types like Wichita State and Xavier are there, and the all jock, all State, President of the Senior Class Kentucky is there of course, and even the hipster Gonzaga is there.
And us! We're not popular, the expected jocks, the all this or that. Yet somehow, we got invited. We're clearly not the center of attention. We're kind of hanging out at the edge, enjoying ourselves, just happy to be here.
So that's what it's like this year for State fans. We're surprised and delighted to be in the Sweet 16. Any thing else good that happens - well, that will be icing on the cake.
Hey - Who invited UCLA?
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