“When we’re there, we act unified,” said Wheeler, whose teammates are frequently spotted using their stomachs as a human poster. “When someone acts crazy, it’s like a fever that rushes through us.”

Superfandom flows through the veins of other students, as well.

The men’s lacrosse team has been known to strip and chant “No-tee O.T.” when the Ivy League champion women’s soccer team enters overtime, and roommates and friends of the men’s soccer players are likely to be the best hecklers in Cambridge.

In addition, at this year’s Halloween football game, Harvard’s trouncing of Dartmouth may have been less memorable than a new, unknown mascot, who consistently appeared on the Jumbotron completely hidden in a suit of crimson spandex.

One renowned pair of superfans have sadly left the Harvard undergraduate community, leaving basketball fans wondering who will take the place of the infamous “whiteboard guys.”

This pair of 2008 Harvard football alumni, Matt Schindel and Andrew Brecher, made a name for themselves not only by being two of the only students to attend more than one Crimson basketball game.

Their main claim to fame was the whiteboard they brought with them to each game that served as a constantly-changing poster and source of visual heckling.

“I went to a lot of games back then,” Schindel reminisced of his time as a Harvard superfan. “[Superfandom’s] really important in terms of just showing support, and especially in a small place that doesn’t get many fans, you can hear everything.”

Harvard may never be able to turn sporting events into the social scene they are on other campuses or see filled stadiums of crimson-clad undergraduates during a game that isn’t synonymous with blacking out.

However, as crimson-spandex guy and the women’s basketball team have showed, superfandom at Harvard is both possible and appreciated.

With scores of sporting events this weekend—men’s soccer takes on Penn for the Ivy League title, football battles the undefeated Quakers for a its share of a three-peat Ancient Eight crown, and men’s and women’s hoops kick off their seasons—the choice is simple. Put down that Life Sci 1a book, grab some face paint and get across the river—that’s what the curve is for anyways.

—Staff writer Alexandra J. Mihalek can be reached at amihalek@fas.harvard.edu.