The capacity of Miami University’s Millett Hall is listed at 6,400. But when a modest crowd of 1,474 is scattered throughout the red and gray chair back seats, the words uttered in the stands — which reverberate off of the vaulted ceiling — are usually audible to the players on the court.
So, when Kent State senior forward Jimmy Hall failed to convert a baseline jumper early in the second half Saturday afternoon, one fan in Miami’s makeshift student section, stationed in a collapsible seat behind the radio table on the far sideline yelled “Jimmy Hall Jr., you’re so soft.