Scoring in Miami last January was something the Jayhawks and Brandon Leddy have in common. It was New Year’s Day 2008 when sleet and rain welcomed Brandon to Miami. Because hitting the beach was out of the picture, the nearby bar Casablanca made due. Crimson and blue overtook the bar, but one girl stood out above the rest.

Brandon, Wichita native and junior at the time, walked up to Jani Gisi and got her “digits,” he says. It may have been lack of sleep or the noise in the bar because Jani, now a junior, put Brandon’s name in her phone as “Miami.”

Their first date was tailgating together the morning of the Orange Bowl. These two are true KU fans, “Miami” says.

For Brandon and Jani’s one-year anniversary, watching the Insight Bowl together in Jani’s hometown, Aberdeen, South Dakota, seemed quite appropriate. Wearing the same KU T-shirts they wore the day they met in Miami, Brandon and Jani cheered on another KU football victory together.