USC went one-and-done. Mayo looks as if he will too.
The much-ballyhooed battle of the freshman stars, Mayo and Kansas State’s Michael Beasley, became a battle of teams, and Kansas State won it with contributions from some of its less-heralded freshmen.
Afterward, Mayo slapped hands with the Kansas State players, then found Beasley and his high school teammate Bill Walker and hugged them. They rubbed his head, and Mayo walked off the court, giving a ball boy a high five.
Somebody asked him in the locker room if he had played his last game in a USC uniform.
“I don’t know. I’m not thinking about that right now,” Mayo said.
He handled himself perfectly well, the way he has all season, with yes-sirs and yes-ma’ams and spot-on analysis of the game.
