SEATTLE — When there was no one left to celebrate with him, Derik Queen clapped by himself. He stared into the crowd. He bounced a little. The author of a forever moment, the man who finally changed Maryland’s last-shot fortunes, basked as he waited for a hero’s postgame interview.
Queen, a 6-foot-10, 246-pound freshman from Baltimore who plays with grace and guile, let his mouthguard dangle from his lower lip. It’s a familiar, Stephen Curry-like habit, but this time he was so full of joy that if he smiled any wider, that thing would have fallen to the hardwood.