Few things in basketball are as demoralizing as infiltrating a defense, getting to the basket and finishing at the rim only to find that whoops—you did not actually finish. That, instead, the ball now resides in the first row of the stands. Not because you did anything wrong—on the contrary, you may have done everything right—but because of a glitch in the system.
Kenny Wooten is that glitch. On Sunday night, the Oregon sophomore forward, whose body composition appears to be 4% water and 96% fast-twitch fibers, blocked seven shots in the Ducks’ 73–54 win over UC Irvine.