Vice President Kamala Harris, sadly, witnessed her alma mater, Howard College, lose to the defending NCAA males’s basketball nationwide champion Kansas on Thursday, 96-68.
Howard and Kansas performed on the Wells Fargo Enviornment in Des Moines, Iowa, and when Harris appeared on the video board, she obtained an icy reception. In accordance with a number of reviews, the boos outweighed the cheers from the followers.
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After the sport, the vice chairman bought an opportunity to present downtrodden Bison gamers a pep discuss of their locker room after their loss.
Howard’s Elijah Hawkins, #3, tries to get previous Kansas’s Ok.J. Adams Jr. in the course of the second half of a first-round faculty basketball recreation within the NCAA Match Thursday, March 16, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photograph/Morry Gash)
“You performed onerous. You performed to the final second. You made all us Bisons proud,” she mentioned. “You’re sensible. You’re disciplined. You place every part you had into the sport. You guys didn’t cease, and that’s so inspiring. So you retain enjoying with chin up and shoulders again since you confirmed the world who Bison are.
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Kansas guard Dajuan Harris Jr. loses the ball out of bounds in entrance of Howard guard Bryce Harris, #34, within the second half of a first-round faculty basketball recreation within the NCAA Match, Thursday, March 16, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photograph/Charlie Neibergall)
“So I do know you will not be feeling nice proper now, OK, however know who you might be. You’re excellence. You’re onerous work. You’re highly effective, and you might be winners.”
Harris’ speech, nonetheless, didn’t actually resonate with the remainder of social media.
Howard was simply of their third NCAA Males’s Basketball Match look in program historical past. It was the second time the crew was chosen as a No. 16 seed. The Bison had been a No. 12 seed in 1981.
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Vice President Kamala Harris and husband Douglas Emhoff watch in the course of the second half of a first-round faculty basketball recreation between Howard and Kansas within the NCAA Match Thursday, March 16, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photograph/Morry Gash)
This season, Howard coach Kenneth Blakeney led the crew to a 22-12 – his finest document but as the top coach. It was solely three years in the past when Howard solely had 4 wins.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
