David Beatty was down, dejected and trying to find a way to move forward.
“I’m hurt, man,” he said.
It was Dec. 14 and the media room at Colonial Life Arena was home to South Carolina’s freshman basketball players. Beatty was greeting reporters for the first time in his college career. He hadn’t scored in three games. He had just finished a full round of semester exams.
But forget hoops and school for a second and realize what Beatty, a Philadelphia native, witnessed four days earlier.
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