It's going to be an accurate depiction of "how the other half lives" tomorrow night, when Cornell looks to prolong the best NCAA tournament run by an Ivy League team since Tony Price-led Penn earned a berth in the 1979 Final Four.
Their opponent? Kentucky, which has taken the world by wildfire this season under John Calipari.
It's Cornell, a slew of bookworms with grand aspirations to make big bucks on Wall Street. It's Kentucky, dripping with diaper dandy talent that will catapult some of them to the upper-percentile of the nation's wealthiest people when they sign with NBA squads.
And that's why it is intriguing.
The Journal News' Mike Lopresti recently wrote a piece "Cornell v.s. Kentucky a study in contrasts." To see Lopresti's piece, please visit the following link:
http://www.lohud.com/article/20100323/SPORTS01/3230355/Cornell-vs.-Kentucky-a-study-in-contrasts
I decided to pencil my own version of significant differences between the odd couple that meets tonight.
This June John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins, and Patrick Patterson will surely sport lavish suits in the green room while waiting for their names to be called by David Stern.
Also this June, Cornell seniors will sport dapper suits at wine-and-cheese themed parties celebrating their recent graduation.
Kentucky's slew of youngins are on a race to the Final Four, where most anticipate them ending up. This Is It as far as their chances to boost their NBA draft stocks. Many of their young guns will be testing the NBA waters.
Cornell's senior-laden club is on a race to prolong their final season of basketball. Few could have envisioned them advancing this far. This Is It as far as their ultra-competitive playing years go, before father time and Wall Street begins to creep in.
Clearly, the similarities are few and far between.
Cornell is in Ithaca, the town were the 2000 comedy film, "Road Trip" was shot.
Kentucky players will be on plenty of road trips next year, traveling city-to-city while receiving nice handsome NBA paychecks.
Cornell's mascot is Big Red. In five years, John Wall will likely have an endorsement deal from the famed chewing gum company, Big Red.
Wall and company will be studying high-powered offenses orchestrated by Chris Paul and Lebron James next year. Cornell's eight seniors, a good chunk of them, will be studying neuro biology, economical trending, and other subjects of that ilk next year.
Cornell players have ducked the dreaded time limit on ultra-important career-determinant exams.
Calipari, responsible for putting two schools on probation (an unimpressive feat which Bob Knight has reminded folks) continues to duck the long arm of the NCAA's crackdown team.
Guys from Cornell will be uncorking bottles of wine and choosing from a smorgasbord of drinks from the bar with their longtime girlfriends and fiancees at lavish, Jay Gatsby-like graduation parties. The Kentucky kids will be popping bottles of Crys and drinking Hennessey with random groupies during their post-draft party.
Call me crazy, but Cornell does have a considerable professional in 6-foot-7 Ryan Wittman.
Wittman, the son of former NBA coach Randy Wittman, is a sniper who lit up Wisconsin early and dialed in from wayyy downtown.
The Big Red will certainly need a 3-point barrage from Wittman another superb game from guard Louis Dale--who fell through the cracks as a recruit and actually sent in tape to Cornell his senior year of high school--to have a chance at another stunning upset.
The battle in the backcourt will be an immense factor. Both Ivy League Player of the Year recipients, Wittman and Dale will need to take some of the stress off of 7-footer Jeff Foote. Foote, a tall man, has a tall order tonight.
Foote, who started an unpromising career at St. Bonaventure before witnessing his stock soar at the Ivy League school, will have his hands full with the interior frontline tandem of NBA-bound DeMarcus Cousins and Patrick Patterson.