With two and a half minutes left in SMU’s 80-54 win vs. Connecticut, SMU fans saw the moment they had imagined all week: One by one, SMU’s seniors exited a game at Moody Coliseum for the final time in their careers. As Nic Moore exited to a standing ovation, he stopped to hug Markus Kennedy by the scorer’s table. Both stopped to embrace head coach Larry Brown before taking a seat on the SMU bench.
After the game ended, the sellout Moody crowd stayed in anticipation of something else: SMU’s three seniors, Moore, Kennedy and Jordan Tolbert, were going to speak to the crowd.