Jesse! We'll Cook in the Round of 64!

For the second consecutive year, Harvard Men's Basketball has made the tourney.  For the second consecutive year, there's a New Mexico connection.  Last year the Crimson faced Vanderbilt in The Pit, on the campus of the University of New Mexico.  Today they get a crack at the Lobos themselves, in Salt Lake City.  I don't know anything about basketball, but I love looking at Wikipedia.  Consider this your compendium of off-court knowledge in advance of tonight's showdown.

The University of New Mexico

-Founded in 1889 by legislative decree

-27,197 students are enrolled at UNM for the Spring 2013 semester

-19,464 of those are undergraduates

-15,047 of those are full-time students

-UNM has more undergrads who identify as "Hispanic" than who do as "White"

-402 students list their prior residence as Dona Ana County, home of New Mexico State University. Turncoats.

-Exactly one student lists his/her prior residence as Harding County

-Besides basketball, UNM athletics is famous for 1) Brian Urlacher and 2) that is all. 

-Famous UNM alumni include The Guy You Almost Certainly Should Have Voted For, The Lady Who Played Laverne and The Babysitter Bandit, A Guy Amaker Probably Would Have Landed, and The Guy Who Designed Petco Park. 

Albuquerque

-Hosted Harvard last year

-Have you watched even five minutes of Breaking Bad? 

-Or what about The Hills Have Eyes? 

-Albuquerque needs to triple funding to its tourism board, because Hollywood has me convinced that New Mexico is a terrifying hellworld. 

Salt Lake City

-Home of WHRB Sports' own Anton Khodakov

-Only a 10-hour drive from ABQ. Luckily UNM's Spring Break was last week.  Regardless, I expect a pro-Lobo zoo

-Located in the Great Basin, but pretty much abutting the western edge of the Rocky Mountains 

-Founded in 1847 by Brigham Young

-In 1856, SLC cruelly stole the title of Capital of the Utah Territory from Fillmore. Fillmore has been getting on just fine, though, thank you very much. 

-Was (sort of close to) the site of the "Golden Spike", marking the ceremonial completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad. 

-That was basically it for excitement until 1979, when New Orleans Jazz showed up

-Famous SLC people include One Of The Guys You Almost Certainly Did Vote For, The Lady You Almost Certainly Did Not Vote For, Knowledge Incarnate, and A Guy Who Is Not At All Certain Of How Many People Voted For Whom.