Vice President Kamala Harris was showered with boos while attending a NCAA Tournament game Thursday where her alma mater Howard University was blown out in a primary round game of March Madness.
When the veep was shown on video board in the course of the men’s basketball game, the boos were louder than the applause inside Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, Idaho, the Associated Press reported.
The Democrat witnessed the top-seeded University of Kansas Jayhawks trounce the Howard Bison – where Harris graduated in 1986 – by a rating of 96-68 within the west region matchup.
Harris, who watched the sport in a set with husband and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, visited Howard’s locker room after the loss to commend the players on their effort and impressive season.
“You guys are so good, you guys are so good,” Harris said as she met the team and gave them a round of applause. “You played hard, you played to the very last second, you made all us Bisons so, so proud.”
“You might be smart. You might be disciplined. You place all the things you had into the sport,” Harris went on to say. “And you understand that’s what it’s about, right. Until the last minute, you guys did that, you didn’t stop until the last second you probably did not stop, and that’s so inspiring. So you retain fiddling with chin up and shoulders back since you showed the world who Bison are.”
Harris joked when she went to highschool there fans were just pleased there was a game, “much less attending to this place.”
“You make us so proud so I do know you would possibly not be feeling great at once, OK, but know who you might be: you might be excellence, you might be exertions, you might be powerful and you might be winners,” she said before offering a tour of the White House to the group of young men.
The historically black university based in DC made its first trip to the boys’s NCAA tournament since 1992 before their loss Thursday. It was this system’s third ever trip to the Big Dance.
With Post wires
