On a Friday afternoon, between the jab of another first-round NCAA loss and the right cross of Underwood’s deptarture that came on Saturday, Oklahoma State’s basketball team was just trying to make sense of it all.
And their fifth-year senior was no exception.
“We just had a few lapses on defense,” said Phil Forte. “And when you play a team like Michigan, you can’t do that. And when you get into a scoring match, and you don’t score, obviously they’re going to make a little run.”
Forte, the prolific shooter who has been lighting up OSU fans’ hearts since his arrival in Stillwater, ended his career on a bit of a cold streak.