Ever the realist, Hampton University basketball coach Edward Joyner Jr. knows his team is in a David vs. Goliath battle when it takes on the University of Kentucky’s top rated men’s basketball team in the NCAA tournament game Thursday.

Facing epic odds, he sought a biblical solution, that didn’t work out so well. He used speed dial to call up Jesus, who promptly hung up on him.

Soooo, if after cheering for Georgia and Georgia State in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, you still have room in your sporting heart, the No. 68 seeded Hampton University Pirates could use your prayers in their quest to upset No. 1 seed Kentucky on Thursday.