Listen up, Harvard sports fans. I've got a question for all of you:

Where were you last night?

You definitely weren't at Lavietes Pavilion. Your women's basketball team was busy chalking up another Ivy League victory, and, once again, not many of you showed up.

It was a sparse crowd, indeed. Check that--it was a sparse Harvard crowd.

There were a number of fans cheering wildly for the Crimson last night. They were a group of young girls from a basketball league in West Roxbury.

You should have heard them. They screamed for the Harvard players like kids usually do for sports figures they idolize.

Yep, I said idolize.

After the game, these girls simply mobbed the Crimson in hopes of getting an autograph or a chance to say hello. Just ask Allison Feaster, who was swarmed by more than one hundred little faces eager to meet the young lady who they had just seen score 28 points.

It was almost a perfect college athletic atmosphere. There was just one thing missing...YOU!

I'm not talking to the Harvard students who couldn't care less about sports--I couldn't care less about them. This column is directed at all of you Harvard sports fans who are not turning out to watch this team.

What's the problem?

The 1996-97 Harvard women's basketball team is currently undefeated against Ivy League opponents; no Ivy League team has ever gone undefeated in league play.

That should be all I need to say.

I am calling on all Harvard basketball fans to come down to Lavietes Pavilion (that's the building directly in front of Harvard Stadium, for those of you who have never been there) and support your team like the kids from West Roxbury did.

Why aren't you coming? Do you not have the time? The games are less than two hours long.