NEW YORK -Keith Appling sat silently by his locker inside Madison Square Garden, his hands clasped over his eyes. He could have been praying, crying or hiding. He had reason to do all three.
"I just feel like I let everybody down," he whispered. "We let everybody down." Minutes earlier, he still had been a college basketball player, bent at the knee, ready to defend, hoping his team could overcome the monster of its mistakes and still, somehow, reach the Final Four.
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Published on April 01, 2014 07:10