Today was the annual Varsity basketball match pitting the Oxford Men’s Blues against the Cambridge Lions.

While most of the crowd was entertained by the actual playing, I instead spent most of my time endlessly amused by the fact that neither of these two teams — supposedly representing the best these two fine institutions could find — had a single Afri– oh hell, black player.

Yep.

Let’s see, there were a (surprising?) number of East Asian players, mixed in a flurry of European and English players. Oh, I might have spotted a South Asian at one point, but it could have been a trick of the light.

Having played basketball a great deal in my Canadian youth, I suppose it’s just the first time I ever saw something like that — barring say, the Swedish Olympic Basketball team.

Then again, it really does give you an idea of the slight demographic problem we have here in the City of Dreaming Spires.