There stood Malcolm Brogdon on senior night, under the basket at John Paul Jones Arena, staring at the floor with the corners of his mouth turned down in a pout so similar to Barack Obama’s that it’s clear why one of his nicknames is “the President.”
He stayed stone-faced as he was handed a framed No. 15 jersey and held it to the crowd as his mother, father and two older brothers stood beaming next to him. When it was finally game time, Brogdon took his place on the court and let loose a signature pregame yawn.
Whatever emotion he felt in his final home game as Virginia’s most decorated men’s basketball player since the Ralph Sampson era in the early 1980s didn’t show.