A few hours before the First Four games of the NCAA men's basketball tournament tipped off Tuesday just up the road in Dayton, Wes Miller sat at a podium, alone.
The first-year University of Cincinnati coach sat inside the media room at Fifth Third Arena for his final news conference of the season.
Instead of preparing for his next opponent in the NCAA Tournament or any of the other auxiliary postseason tournaments, Miller is embarking on his personal "intense" and "long" evaluation process and bracing for an offseason full of questions.
“Right now, it's trying to decompress from the year, evaluate, self-evaluate as a staff and myself as a head coach, evaluate where the program is, where it needs to go and the things that we need to do to take steps to get there," he said.