Kamala Harris attends March Madness amid chilly reception from Iowa crowd

The first appearance for Howard University in the NCAA tournament since 1992 included a visit by one of the school’s most prominent alums.

US vice-president Kamala Harris watched Howard’s 96-68 first-round loss to Kansas from a suite at Wells Fargo Arena on Thursday afternoon and met with the team afterward.

As supporters in the hallway chanted “H-U, you know!” players trickled into the locker room. Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, walked in a few minutes later.

“You played hard. You played to the very last second. You made all us Bisons proud,” Harris said, according to the press pool account of her address of the players. “You are smart. You are disciplined. You put everything you had into the game. You guys did not stop, and that is so inspiring. So you keep playing with chin up and shoulders back because you showed the world who Bison are.”

Harris, who graduated in 1986 from the historically Black university in the nation’s capital, said she has heard alumni all over the world talking about their pride in the team.

"You made all us Bison so proud." ❤️@VP Kamala Harris delivered a postgame message to @HUMensBB