Whiskey In the Winter Is On January 27 - Tickets On Sale Now

No pressure Cleveland State Vikings, but the fate of Cleveland is in your hands against Butler

By Joe Tone on Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 1:53 pm

[
      {
        "name": "Ad - NativeInline - Injected",
        "component": "38482495",
        "insertPoint": "3",
        "requiredCountToDisplay": "5"
      },{
        "name": "Real 1 Player (r2) - Inline",
        "component": "38482494",
        "insertPoint": "2/3",
        "requiredCountToDisplay": "9"
      }
    ]

For success, the Vikes need only to tap into their inner-Hoosier.

The Cleveland State men's hoops team disposed of Valparaiso on Saturday, earning them a spot in Horizon League Championship game against the 14th-ranked Bulldogs of Butler . Tip-off is at 9 p.m. on ESPN. (Editor’s note: We called the CSU athletic department and Becky’s, a bar near CSU, to find out where Vikings-bandwagon-jumpers might be able to get regrettably hammered while watching the game with fellow CSU fans, but we were greeted with verbal shrugs of indifference, reinforcing our theory that the CSU will never be more than a mediocre hoops program.) Anyway, a win gives the Vikings an automatic berth in the NCAA tournament, which is approximately equal to Kevin from the Wonder Years bagging Winnie when they were still in grade school. (What? We said "approximate!") ...

Scroll to read more Cleveland Sports articles