At 8 o'clock tonight, the Jadwin lights will blare, the music will blast and fans will flock to the 209th meeting of the Princeton and Penn basketball teams. Though it doesn't receive as much national hype as the storied Duke-UNC rivalry, for those whose blood runs black and orange it is just as thrilling.
And as the first meeting of the two teams this season, this matchup promises to be no less exciting than any other. Princeton has lost to Penn in their last four meetings and the two teams have split 38 of the last 41 Ivy League championships. With their 4-and-0 in Ivy League play thus far, the Tigers can secure a sturdy first-place standing if they earn the victory tonight.
But this game is about much more than the Xs, Os and statistical outcomes of the 2004 basketball season. Victory might finally convince the Quakers what for Princetonians has long been assumed common knowledge — Penn never was, and never will be one of the Big Three of the Ivies. And rest assured, its rise in the US News and World Report rankings has only instilled a false sense of pride in them. Let's be honest, for most of us Penn was just a safety school. Fine, their business school is pretty good, but who can name one famous Penn professor?
They may think a basketball rivalry with the long-established Ivy League leader means entry into the Princeton-Harvard-Yale bloc, but ultimately, it is brains, not brawn, that constitute our preeminence. A little hardwood domination wouldn't hurt, though.
So they can steal our current provost for their future president. They can yap about how much better the Palestra is than our airplane hangar gym. But no matter what happens tonight, Princeton will still be ahead of Penn.
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