GW......Again

Recently, news came from the BU Athletic Department that BU basketball would be participating in a pod of the Preseason NIT, in Villanova's pod based in Philadelphia. Obviously, this is a great opportunity for a program looking to make a name for itself and expand its "brand". It's also a nice little chance to play some teams you wouldn't normally get the chance to, like in this Puerto Rico Shootout this past year when BU got to compete against Kansas State, Indiana and Georgia Tech.

Any of those above reasons make BU's inclusion in the Preseason NIT all that more intriguing. However, the tournament brackets were recently released and BU is playing (drumroll please)....George Washington aka the team that it seems like we play every single year.



BU and GW are like two twins seperated along a coast: we're both private schools with urban campuses in big cities. We're about the same size, we both play in mid-major sports conferences and we're both extremely overpriced considering our respective placements on the college rankings (which, shocker, we're seperated by like two places on). Any college book I looked at said that if I'm considering BU, to look at GW and vice versa. You could almost refer to BU as GW North and GW as BU South.

So here we find ourselves again, facing Karl Hobbs and his bunch from our nation's capital, a team who I've seen us look terrible against for two consecutive years at home in front of at the very worst utterly disappointed and at best entirely apathetic home crowds at Agganis.

A win would secure a likely matchup with Villanova, but based on our success or lack thereof against GW in the past several years, let's just worry about the first game for now