Bruce Pearl on the Selection Sunday broadcast. Awful Announcing/X
“Just realized the best part of having an autobid is that we don’t need a relative going on tv to explain why we deserve to be in over a 30-win [Miami (Ohio)],” the UMBC athletics X account wrote in a post on Sunday night.
They weren’t the only ones to clown on the former college hoops coach.
SMU, which was one of the last four teams in the NCAA Tournament, took aim at Pearl in a post of their own.
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“We can’t all be named Pearl,” SMU wrote on X.
The school had been replying to a post by the news site highlighting how Pearl had been advocating for Auburn to be in the tournament over SMU.
