CORAL GABLES — The Hurricanes have a simple message for people filling out their NCAA Tournament brackets at home: “Don’t pick us.”
Miami was not expected to accomplish much entering last season but made a run to the program’s first Elite Eight before falling to eventual national champion Kansas. Despite that success, the Hurricanes were picked to finish fourth in the ACC this season.
Instead, Miami tied for the conference championship and enters the NCAA Tournament as the Midwest Region’s fifth seed. But the Hurricanes themselves want the doubters to keep the same energy they had before, releasing a video in conjunction with The Players’ Tribune encouraging those who did not believe in UM to keep it that way.