Within minutes of his team’s latest escape, Jim Larranaga changed completely from his courtside, suit-and-tie coach’s uniform. He donned sweat pants. Tennis shoes. T-shirt and long-sleeve pullover.
“I was sweating too much,’’ the Miami men’s basketball coach said as he sat before the media.
Long before his team ebbed and flowed through a 71-65 win against Clemson, Larranaga knew this season would be a season to sweat out. These Hurricanes are good but young – decidedly young – as three freshmen, two sophomores and two seniors played Saturday.
In November and December, as the youth revealed itself, Miami lurched through good nights and bad nights, up halves followed by down halves, even staggering differences from one time-out to the next.