MINNEAPOLIS -- Brandone Francis celebrated Texas Tech's NCAA West Region final win with rapper Nipsey Hussle in the locker room.
The next day, the Tech redshirt senior dealt with the news that his friend of seven years was dead, shot down outside his Los Angeles clothing store.
"I'm tired of crying," Francis said Thursday inside the Tech locker room at the Final Four. "I don't want to cry anymore. I want to celebrate his life and everything he was as a person. I want to smile. I keep playing his music, enjoying his music. He's forever going to be my big brother.