The Howard men’s basketball team got a special visitor to the locker room after its 96-68 loss to the Kansas Jayhawks in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
After making history and punching its ticket to March Madness for the first time in about three decades, the No. 16 seed Howard couldn’t quite get past No. 1 seed Kansas during Thursday’s West Region game in Des Moines, Iowa.
However, Howard alumna and Vice President Kamala Harris attended Thursday’s game and visited with the Bison after the loss. She gave them words of encouragement and talked about how proud their fellow Bison were of the program.
“You played hard; you played to the very last second,” Harris told the locker room. “You made all us Bison so, so proud. You hustled out there. You are smart. You are disciplined. You put everything you had into the game.”
"You made all us Bison so proud." ❤️@VP Kamala Harris delivered a postgame message to @HUMensBB 👏 #MarchMadness pic.twitter.com/zwQFcwlWYX
— NCAA March Madness (@MarchMadnessMBB) March 16, 2023
It’s an incredibly classy move by the vice president, and her message likely gave this locker room the encouragement it needed after such a tough defeat.
While Howard didn’t advance in the NCAA tournament, the team did get a really special moment to mark its March Madness experience.
The Bison also got an invitation from Harris for a tour of the White House, which is a pretty cool consolation prize.
