And there is your not-as-friendly-as-it-seems-on-the-surface reminder that sportsmanship, much like everything else in life, is circumstantial. Credit to Trent Frazier for upholding the integrity of the game, I guess, but you are outside of your mind if you think he would have done so in a game he thought he had the potential to lose (they won 99-60, for the record). Illinois basketball will undoubtedly benefit from plenty of atrocious calls over the course of the year, so let's revisit how honorable their starting guard is when the ball ever-so-slightly grazes his leg before going out of bounds with two minutes remaining in a one possession conference rivalry game. To be honest, if I played for Evansville, who neither you or I knew existed before two minutes ago, I would have been insulted by such a "selfless" act. That's a prideful group of student athletes on the other end of that court and they just got treated like a goddamn charity case. Think back to college. The only time you ever offered the people on the other end of the beer pong table the opportunity to shoot first was when you were certain their dumb drunk ass was going to miss, so spare me this "sportsmanship" nonsense. The only time a competitor gives up any sort of competitive edge is when they don't see their competition as such. Now, I don't think Trent Frazier was trying to be disrespectful, but if I were the opponent that was granted an extra possession due to his convenient moral compass I would have bounced that damn ball right off my foot on the inbounds. If I am more than likely going to lose anyway then I am going to lose with my dignity in tact. That Evansville player might play for a cupcake squad, but that doesn't mean he needs nor wants a generous bite of anybody else's dessert in the form of a righted wrong. Let him take his 'L', bad call (that he was looking forward to bitching about later) and all.
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