NCAA president Mark Emmert gets Kansas’ name wrong during championship trophy presentation
Trophy presentation gaffes are formally a factor this Closing 4 season.
On Sunday, ESPN’s Holly Rowe known as Most Excellent Participant Aliyah Boston by the wrong name after South Carolina’s win within the girls’s nationwide championship. On Monday, NCAA president Mark Emmert acquired the identify of the lads’s championship group mistaken.
After Kansas rallied from a 15-point halftime deficit to beat North Carolina and declare its fourth NCAA championship, Emmert was tasked with saying the trophy presentation earlier than head coach Invoice Self took management of the {hardware}. Emmert acquired Self’s identify proper. However Jayhawks trustworthy will certainly take concern with what got here subsequent.
“Right here to current the trophy is the top of the basketball committee Tom Burnett to educate Self and the Kansas Metropolis Jayhawks,” Emmert mentioned.
Emmert instantly realized his error to accurately name them the College of Kansas Jayhawks.
However the injury was executed. That is certain to rile up some of us in Lawrence and people in Missouri who name Kansas Metropolis dwelling. Particularly the Mizzou grads.
For the Jayhawks gamers and coaches as they have a good time a nationwide championship over longtime event rival North Carolina? This is guessing that they could not care much less.
