We “whiny, entitled Harvarders” are accustomed to hearing our athletic department mocked—it seems impossible to mention our school’s name without hearing some quip. Recently, Seth Kolloen of The SunBreak, a Seattle-based blog, decided to join in on the fun—but little did he know that the Crimson would have the last laugh.

In a season preview of Seattle University’s basketball team, the Redhawks, Kolloen said that their star player Charles Garcia “will be the most talented player on the floor in many of SU's games this year (especially against Harvard).”

But when the two schools met on Jan. 2, it was Harvard who had the best player on the court: Jeremy S. Lin '10, whom Kolloen apparently hadn't heard of. “Had I been a better blogger,” he conceded, “I would’ve noticed that Harvard has a player named Jeremy Lin who is a pretty talented basketball player—and at this moment a better one than Garcia.”

Kolloen then apologized for having “underestimated the talent of the one decent player you’ve had since the Truman Admistation.” We think that Lin, who was named a Midseason Top 30 Candidate for the John R. Wooden Award (the highest national honor for college basketball) and a finalist for the Bob Cousy Award (which recognizes the nation's top point guard), is a bit more than just a "decent" player. In the Seattle game, he put up 21 points, 4 steals, 2 rebounds, and 3 assists.

Although Lin’s teammates might be offended by Kolloer’s suggestion that Lin is the Crimson’s only decent player, they seem to be letting their play do the talking. After all, Kyle D. Casey '13 put up 19 points—just as many as Garcia did—coming off the bench.

The game, of course, is now over, but it looks like the war over Kolleon's words is still in progress. Many of the (sometimes inflammatory) comments on his post seem to find his "apology" unsatisfactory. While it remains to be seen who will win the last word in that battle, the Crimson, with its 92-71 victory over the Redhawks, has already had the final say on the court.

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