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An Observer
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Date Posted: 10:15:32 12/05/25 Fri
You are correct. There are better examples than Merrimack.
I think I just had a kneejerk reaction from when I first found out a few years ago that Harvard men's basketball was going to play Merrimack. My first thought was, "As in the Monitor?"
I like to maintain the self-congratulatory delusion that there are very few NCAA colleges (as opposed to NAIA) I have never heard of.
I was struck that the most famous university in the world by far was going to play a varsity basketball competition against a school which was completely new to me. And I lived in Boston for more than a decade, about half an hour from Merrimack.
One of the greatest women I ever dated, on our first date told me that she had graduated from Pacific Lutheran University. Then she added, "We're national champions." I asked, "In what?"
She responded, "In football."
I literally thought that she might be crazy. Well, as the hours passed on our that fateful first date, it became clear that, not only was she sane, she was one of the smartest, clearest thinking, and most capable people I had ever met.
Later I looked up Pacific Lutheran. Sure enough, they were the reigning NAIA Division II national champions in football.
There are more schools you've never heard of than you might think.
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