Boban Marjanović Crashes Michigan's Student Section at the National Championship Game, and One Fan Is Totally Fine With It

Indianapolis got a reminder on Monday night that sometimes the real story at a championship game isn't what happens on the court, it's who shows up in the stands. And when that person is a 7-foot-4, 290-pound professional basketball player, well, you've got a problem for literally everyone sitting behind him.

Boban Marjanović, a two-decade veteran of professional basketball and one of the largest human beings on the planet, decided to post up in the Michigan student section during the NCAA national championship game. The catch? He completely blocked the view of one unlucky Wolverine fan named Shea Peare, who graduated from Michigan in December and works as an actuary.

The Internet's Biggest Question Got Answered

Before the game even hit halftime, the internet was buzzing with one very specific question: what would it actually feel like to sit directly behind Boban at the biggest game of the year? By Monday, they had their answer, and Peare became the instant symbol of that reality. He was sitting center court, right in Boban's shadow, with a smile plastered across his face that was somehow both amused and completely resigned to his fate.

Here's the thing though, Peare wasn't bitter about it. Not even close. "No, I'm not mad about it," he said. "It's too awesome." His solution? He pointed straight up at Lucas Oil Stadium's massive 53 by 97-foot video screens. "I'm just watching most of the game on the big TV," Peare explained.

Boban Was Here for the Vibes

This wasn't Marjanović's first stop on his Final Four tour either. He'd already made appearances in the student sections during Saturday's semifinal matchups between Arizona and UConn before rolling into Michigan's section on Monday. He showed up in a Michigan blue hoodie, camera in hand, recording the whole experience and leading cheers with massive high fives.

When someone asked him why he was doing all this, Boban turned to Peare and the rest of the students and fired back with his own question: "Why am I doing this?!" Then, as they all cheered him on, he smiled and gave the perfect answer: "No reason at all. I'm just doing it because I love it."

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