| Shocking Upset of Bard Draws National Attention January 7 - The national sports media reacted in frenzied shock to an upset of Bard College by California Institute of Technology, 81-52. Though Division III basketball is normally ignored nationally, the astonishing result was picked up by Sports Illustrated, ESPN, MSNBC, and even National Public Radio, as America tried to come to terms with the mighty Raptors losing, particularly in California, a state where Bard had only lost 3 times in its history. A great irony of the victory was that the size of the event's shock registered at a 10.7 on a machine only the players on Cal Tech were able to read. One Cal Tech player called the win "kind of amazing," while their sophomore forward Travis Haussler described their locker room as "electric... I got a big chill on the court, realizing that we were pretty much going to win." For Cal Tech, which in its 116-year history has trained 31 Nobel Laureates and sent three graduates on to pre-marital sex, it was a sad reminder that its players lives had nowhere to go but down from here. "Hopefully, I'll invent some sort of computer hookup to the brain," junion Paxon Frady said, as a gaggle of sex-starved basketball groupies did not surround him. LA Times Coverage of the Event |