Alma Mater vs. Favorite Team – Who To Root For?

Anyone who reads my posts with any regularity knows by now that I bleed Scarlet and Gray. I’m an Ohio guy that has grown up loving the Buckeyes. Call me a douchebag, whatever, I’ll take the stereotype given by a few bad eggs.

But what you probably don’t know, is that I went to college at a small D1 school about an hour outside of Columbus, called Wright State, which is located just outside of Dayton. And these two teams just happen to meet tonight at the Schottenstein Center in Columbus for their college basketball season openers.

I will be at this game. I call it a game, although, I wouldn’t be surprised if the only time this game is close is at opening tip off.

And while I fully expect Ohio State to dominate this game, who should I really be rooting for?

My heart is 100% with the Buckeyes. I could honestly give two s**ts about Wright State sports. When you don’t have a football team, and your basketball team is mediocre in the Horizon League, there isn’t much pride to be had.

But if the game is tied at 70 with 5 seconds left on the clock, should I put aside my current hometown team emotions, and root for the underdog Alma Mater? This will be Wright State’s Super Bowl (assuming they don’t make the tourney), so knowing that Ohio State will have plenty of time to get their s**t back together, should I just turn my Buckeye shirt inside out and start howling at the moon? (I never understood why a Raider howls either, but whatever)

I’m stuck and I don’t know what to do…Go Bucks?