SALT LAKE CITY — Trevelin Queen stood in a dark corner near the tunnel inside Vivint Smart Home Arena, his grey hood up, watching the Kansas-Northeastern game get underway. Thirty minutes earlier, Queen, a junior guard at New Mexico State, had sprinted to that same corner of the court, caught an inbounds pass from his teammate AJ Harris, and hoisted the three that could have taken down No. 5 seed Auburn. But it clanged off the front rim as the horn sounded, and Queen’s 6'6" body crumpled to the floor like a marionette without strings.
Season over.