Jaylen Brantley was watching on television at his house near the Odessa (Texas) College campus the night last March when Maryland point guard Melo Trimble was twice knocked out of his team's NCAA tournament game against West Virginia in the second half at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio.
The Terps trailed by three points with 15 minutes to play when Trimble left the game for the first time after taking a nasty shot to the head on a hard screen set by by 6-foot-9, 235-pound sophomore Nathan Adrian, the Mountaineers' backup center. Maryland was down seven points with a little under nine minutes remaining when Trimble left the game for good after the freshman star slipped on the floor and was inadvertently kicked in the head by teammate Damonte Dodd.