Miami men’s basketball was predicted to finish 12th the in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Miraculously, the team rode its season as high as a second-half lead in their first-ever Elite Eight.
NCAA Tournament blue-blood team Kansas defeated the Hurricanes 76-50 in the Elite Eight last Sunday in Chicago, ending the 2021-22 campaign.
“Boy did these guys do a fantastic job of representing our university. I told them I was very proud of them and that I loved them,” Miami coach Jim Larrañaga said. “They will have these memories, not this game, but all the memories that led up to it, they’ll have it for the rest of their life.