The Mistake by the M’Lake
We’re coming to you live from the Quicken Loans Arena (”The Q”) in downtown Cleveland. Your faithful friendly senior writers, Matt Brooks and Gregg Found, just got to our press row seats for the first Final Four matchup between Rutgers and LSU.
We’d love to tell you all about Cleveland and whether it does, in fact, rock, but we arrived last last night and have been holed up in our hotel room all morning working on a class assignment (thanks, Tim Crothers).
Anyways, the battle of the fans here in Cleveland seems to have been won by Tennessee, who is far outnumbering the other three schools. Of course, the Volunteers have had practice showing up to a lot of Final Fours. There’s been a lot of pale orange that we’ve seen, and most of the UT fans are already in their seats at the start of the first game. The Carolina contingent is hard to measure so far…Brooks says it’s either really weak or just hasn’t shown up yet. We’ll let you know what it looks like for UNC’s game.
Predictions for this first semifinal game: Brooks says Rutgers by 5, Found says Rutgers by 15.
Of course, that’s assuming we make it to the end of the game. During the announcement of each team’s starting lineups, a blast of fire streamed from the Jumbotron for every player announced. Our cheeks are still a little warm, and we’re worried that any more pyrotechnics might have our faces melting off.
-Brooks and Found