Tis the season

The NCAA basketball tournament is beginning tomorrow. March madness is upon us.

As a Duke student, I take these next few weeks very seriously. Even before I became a student at basketball-powerhouse-Duke, my family and I had always followed basketball. Because my father was (and is) a little bit of a basketball junkie, I grew up with SportsCenter in the background on Saturday mornings instead of cartoons. During high school and college, I watched all the important NBA games on TV, and the occasional NJ nets game at Continental Airlines Arena. My father and I have always loved basketball — playing it, watch it, talking about it — but we were very aware of the infinitesimal presence of Asian players in both college and pro basketball. Thus, like many other Asians and Asian Americans, we were delighted to hear that Yao Ming was the first overall pick of the 2002 draft.

Yao Ming is known for his aggressive dunk