They waited. And as they waited, they debated.
Marlon Taylor was pro ice bath. Kavell Bigby-Williams made the counter argument that maybe LSU should wait until the Final Four to dump the entire cooler on someone.
“No,” he said. “We’re doing this. Now.”
And so the yeas had it. Tremont Waters, fresh off a moment he’d dreamed of his entire life, from the time he started tossing weighted basketballs to his father as a four-year-old in his New Haven living room to the day he arrived in Jacksonville for his first NCAA Tournament, was congratulated for his game-winning layup to put LSU past Maryland 69-67 and into the Sweet 16 with a freezing cold welcome to the locker room.