There were maybe 20 of our purple-clad gang sitting around an outdoor patio table at the mainstay Salt Lake City postgame gathering spot, Gracie’s, just blocks away from Vivint Smart Home Arena. As we chilled in the uncanny 75-degree weather, a pair of TVs 20 feet away repeatedly cut in to March Madness coverage with images of THE Goaltend (joining “The Pass” and “The Foul” in NU hoops lexicon), followed by a long shot of Chris Collins’s facial grimaces on the post game dais. We couldn’t hear the audio, but the frequency of the visuals let us know just how big a story this had become.
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