Texas Tech’s incredible run in the NCAA tournament came up just short of a national title as the Red Raiders lost Virginia, 85-77, in an overtime thriller Monday night in Minneapolis.
Moments after the game their head coach, Chris Beard, spoke with CBS sideline reporter Tracy Wolfson and he was near tears before praising Virginia for its redemption story, calling them a “team of destiny.”
But then he was asked about his team and what how they were dealing with the loss and he couldn’t help but rave about his guys as people:
We’ll bounce back. I’m just so proud of those guys. We have good future fathers in there. Good future husbands. These guys are legit. There’s a lot of emotions in the locker room right now but I’m just so proud to be these guys’ coach.
And his message in the locker room was pretty classy, too:
Thank you. Thank you for those four seniors believing in us when were picked to not even to be relevant in our conference and here we are playing on the last Monday night and sending a Virginia team to overtime. Thank you for everything you’ve done for our program. And for the young guys, the returners, let’s do everything we can in the next 365 days to try to get back.
You can watch the whole interview here:
