I’m concerned about Arizona State.
First off, because this is going on and it looks suspicious:
Robots following you on Twitter? No thanks (but actually, robots, if you’re reading this please follow @nit_stu—I could use the followers).
More pressingly, though, take a look at all this:
Those are the last five tweets sent from the official ASU account (the third one was a retweet). That’s it. Those are the five. You have to go to the sixth to get a men’s basketball reference, and even then…
…it doesn’t even mention what that win did for their NIT chances.
Arizona State, if you missed it, entered our NIT Bracketology today. It was posted a few minutes ago, but the real work was done on Saturday, beating a mediocre Washington on the road. It’s a seminal moment (I do not know what seminal moment means), and ASU made it happen with style, not just entering the projected field, but entering it as a 3-seed, poised for a first-round home game.
This news could literally not be more important to Arizona State students. An NIT game could be coming to their campus for the first time in seven long years. More than half (probably, I’m not checking) of current ASU undergrads weren’t even enrolled yet back then!
Yet the university is out here tweeting about Coronavirus, and calling it “novel” like it’s somehow specialer at ASU than it is everywhere else just one person has had it.
Get it together, Arizona State Twitter account.
