After completing a perfect regular season by improving to 31-0, the 19th-ranked Miami RedHawks’ head coach, Travis Steele, talked to ESPN college basketball analysts about the team’s latest nailbiter.
He also confirmed that he still intends to wear a Speedo at the team’s NCAA tournament Selection Sunday watch party.
“I’ve gotten a bunch of (Speedos) sent to me in the mail, believe it or not,” Steele said. “I gotta see which one fits and which one’s gonna flatter me the most. Listen, when Rece (Davis) put me on ‘GameDay’ and put me on the spot, I said, ‘Listen, that’s a heckuva problem to have if I have to wear a Speedo.’ So I’ve gotta get some extra workouts and watch my diets here over the next week.”
Steele said during a February interview on ESPN’s “College GameDay” that he’ll commit to wearing a Speedo and being hoisted in the air while making a swimming motion at the team’s watch party, if his team finished the regular season undefeated and won the Mid-American Conference tournament.
The RedHawks are the No. 1 seed in the MAC tournament, and will face eighth-seeded UMass in the first game of the day, Thurs., March 12 at 11 a.m. Eastern.
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