INDIANAPOLIS — In a span of 6.3 seconds Sunday, Cayden Boozer’s freshman college basketball season crashed. In the minutes, hours and days that followed, the Duke guard was dragged through online hell.
An unwise, heat-of-the-moment pass was deflected, which led to a UConn possession, which led to Braylon Mullins’s stunning, 35-foot shot. One man’s heroic moment became another man’s calamity, as the sharp turn of events sent UConn to the Final Four and eliminated the Blue Devils. Afterward in the Duke locker room, Boozer forthrightly answered every media question, exhibiting a level of mature accountability beyond his 18 years.
