Late in the second half of Wednesday’s game at Moby Arena, CSU forward Emmanuel Omogbo caught the ball on left wing, drove down the baseline, took off and double-clutched in mid-air, laying in a reverse lay-up that put the crowd into a frenzy and gave the Rams a six-point lead with just over a minute and a half to go.
As he turned to run down the court, Omogbo did something he likely hasn’t done much of in the past week — smile. The junior forward’s face lit up like a kid in a candy store, just eight days removed from getting a phone call from a family friend telling him that both his parents, as well as his twin two-year-old niece and nephew had died in a house fire in suburban Maryland.