Tonight, I attended my first college basketball game in probably ten years, as I saw Pitt defeat Villanova at the Wachovia Center in a battle of Big East contenders. While 'nova was clearly the home team, there were quite a few Pitt boosters, including my fiance, on hand, who were quite happy to see a victory. And after the last couple years of Sixers games, it was nice to see a crowd for a basketball game at Wachovia that wasn't completely dead, for the first time in recent memory.
Two interesting observations from the game: the Villanova promotions people appear to be running out of ideas for contests between time outs, because twice they did the old who-can-make-more-free-throws duel. Another time - holy gender roles, Batman!- they invited a female contestant to shoot cabbages into a shopping cart ten feet away, with the grand prize being a thirty-second shopping spree at the (sponsoring) local supermarket. The game was then delayed for about five minutes while janitors attempted to clear the court of stray bits of cabbage.
Also, an advertisement ran on the scoreboard for a Villanova booster group, known as "The V Club." Which is funny, because at most universities, "The V Club" is the student group responsible for producing "The Vagina Monologues."
Posted by Stephen Silver at January 30, 2007 01:29 AM