This is Mars, which means that madness follows on the university basketball field.
Sometimes this madness is due to certain brutal blunders which cause distressing losses.
This is exactly what happened during the final of the male basketball tournament of the Eastern Middle Sports Conference on Saturday, while Caleb McCarty from the Southern Carolina State seemed to make a game of playing game when he stole an inbound pass and equaled the match at 65 each against Norfolk State.
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Norfolk’s state-of-the-art guardian Christian Ings moves the ball against Tennessee volunteers in Thompson-Boling Arena in downtown Food. (Randy Sartin-Imagn images)
However, the heroic moment of McCarty quickly became sour when he did not seem to realize what the score was at the time of the next play.
With 10.6 seconds to play, McCarty hunted Christians from Norfolk State and intentionally dirty. McCarty’s teammates were in shock, throwing arms in the air while Ings could go to the free throw line to get two free shots to take the lead.
Ings ended up hitting only one of these two free throws with 8.9 seconds to play, although the state of South Carolina had another bucket of bucket to rectify the erroneous fault.
But the last blow to the buzzer missed, and Norfolk State celebrated his trip to the NCAA tournament as Champions of the Meac. Meanwhile, the state of South Carolina could not have been more broken.
The South Carolina State Guard, Eric Eaves, dribble against the Hurricanes of the University of Miami on December 6, 2016, at Watso Center, Coral Gables, Florida. (Richard C. Lewis / Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
McCarty finished the match with four points and two rebounds, playing 19 minutes from the bench for the Bulldogs.
The Bulldogs also increased from 34-25 to half-time, but were upgraded 41-31 in the second half while the Spartans made a return.
Wilson Dubinsky of Southern Carolina State was the top scorer in this match with 24 points, while totaling two rebounds and three assists.
The Bulldog striker of the South Carolina State Caleb McCarty Dunks of the ball against the Musketeers Xavier at the Cintas Center. (Images Aaron Doster-Imagn)
For the state of Norfolk, the Ings paved the way with 16 points, seven rebounds and four assists.
