Few would have predicted, when this college basketball season began, that the Miami Hurricanes men’s team would wind up with an NCAA tournament bid locked up by Selection Sunday after reaching the ACC tournament semifinal and nearly knocking off top-seeded Duke.
But that is where the resurgent Miami team found itself Sunday evening. Surrounded by a few hundred fans and staff at the campus fieldhouse, the Hurricanes jumped out of their seats, hugged, and cheered when the words “Miami (FL)” popped up on the jumbo T.V. screens as the No. 10 seed facing No. 7 Southern California in Greenville, South Carolina, in the first round of the Midwest Region on Friday at 3:10 p.m.
The winner plays the winner of No. 2 Auburn vs. No. 15 Jacksonville State.
