By: Paul Daugherty (Cincinnati.com) -

Our accident of geography leaves us shooting airballs Friday night. The Ohio State University is playing Big Blue in the Sweet 16. How are we supposed to act? When you’re squarely atop the Mason-Dixon Line, are you Mason or Dixon?

Rooting against both is entirely counter-productive, though likely to occur in bars all over town. The calculus of Who You Hate More comes into play, certainly, and I’m guessing that nod would go to the Buckeyes. They take lots of our local football lode. Plus, a place that refers to itself as “The’’ anything opens itself up for mass derision.

Disclaimer: The erstwhile Kid Down The Hall will graduate from OSU in June. He got a very good education, at a very reasonable price. The campus is lovely in places, and underrated. We couldn’t be happier with how his, um, several years in Columbus turned out.

That said, it ain’t UC or Xavier.

Meantime, we’d suggest that UK fans can be a bit overstuffed. But lately, it occurs that most fans are that way. It wasn’t Wildcat Nation that ran Kirk Herbstreit outta Columbus, or killed the trees at Toomer’s Corner in Auburn, Ala. Fans are weird everywhere……

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