<p>Eh, my point still stands. Given the fact that plenty of colleges don’t have any sports teams, if you had to guess what one of those sports-less colleges might be, you’d probably pick MIT if you knew nothing about it.</p>
<p>And it would even make SENSE, not because smart people can’t play sports but you might imagine that MIT would want to focus more of its resources on labs, etc.</p>
<p>Trying to be funny based off of narrow stereotypes isn’t cool (smart kids don’t play sports) is lame, but I don’t think there’s anything wrong with being surprised to find out that MIT has a basketball team.</p>