FAYETTEVILLE — The University of North Texas’ production of “Hamlet” closed Saturday evening at Walton Arena with its hero upstaged.
No poignant pondering “to be or not to be.”
’Twas entirely not to be for this Hamlet. Though cast in Mean Green, the UNT’s Hamlet dramatically diminished to olive drab, reduced by the Razorbacks in their 69-54 victory from prime protagonist to bystander.
The Mean Green’s leading man as the 2019-2020 Conference USA Player of the Year starring for Conference USA’s championship team, point guard Javion Hamlet last season averaged 14.6 points per game. The current UNT senior would have averaged more as a junior but for fitting Coach Grant McCasland’s methodically effective milk the clock game plans.