Binghamton Makes the NCAA Basketball Big Dance!

(Note: click on the title of this post to see details about the game).
It's true! Today for the first time, the Binghamton Colonials (oops, Bearcats) earned an automatic berth to the NCAA basketball playoffs by winning the America East Conference game at home (61-51 win over UMBC). My daughter Kaila texted me to let me know the game was on TV. This is a relatively big deal!

(by the way, is that Oliver and Basil in that photo?)

What does this have to do with Mark and Eric's Running and Dave's wisdom, you might ask. Everything! Mark and Eric ran Division III track and cross country for Binghamton many years ago. In fact, the cross team likely had one of the longest running winning records of any sports team of that era (70s). This type of heritage laid the foundation for Binghamton's later transition to Division I sports, and now, finally, a spot in the Big Dance. Well, maybe this is a stretch, but so what?

Mark