This Wednesday night, for the seniors on campus there should be only one game. Forget that Kansas is playing Iowa State on ESPN. Don’t worry about getting home to watch Duke play. And don’t you dare stay in your dorm room to watch the Knicks.

Wednesday night is Senior Night at the Events Center. Mike Gordon, Richie Forbes, Gio Olomo and some 3,000 other Bearcats will experience their final regular season home game as students. For some it will be a culmination of watching Gordon light up the floor for the past four seasons. For some it will be their first game.

It is to those first timers that I ask, what took you so long? Why would you sit home and watch a school 500 miles away when you have real Division I college basketball, sitting just a few hundred feet from your dorm room?

You will never again be connected to a team that matters in the sports world like you will to your college basketball team. The Bearcats are college basketball in its purest form. These players go to the same classes as you, live in the same dorms, deal with the same lousy weather.

Gordon does not play for the sponsors. Forbes does not score to boost some kid in Kentucky’s fantasy team. Olomo does not grab rebounds hoping to boost his draft position.

They do it for the name across their chest. For Binghamton. For their school. For your school.

And now one final time, they will try to win for their school. One more regular season game against the Albany Great Danes.

The Sparta to our Athens; the Valley to our Bayside. A chance to sweep the season series against a hated rival and a team that has made two straight NCAA tournaments.

The seniors will go out and show another reason why Binghamton is better than Albany — an idea most students that came here likely had.

And you can’t get that at larger programs. Michael Beasley is bigger than Kansas State, Carmelo Anthony was bigger than Syracuse.

Mike Gordon is not bigger than Binghamton. Mike Gordon IS Binghamton.

And for one final regular season game he will go to battle for his school, for Binghamton University.

Gordon will go down as a legend at Binghamton. For anyone who spent the last four years watching him, use Wednesday night to remember what he’s done for you.

And for those who have never seen Gordon, Forbes or Olomo, head to the Events Center Wednesday at 7 p.m. and finally appreciate what they’ve done for you.