He sat below a sea of green and white--Michigan St. fans who had travelled half-way across the country to see their team battle Harvard in the NCAA Tournament final.
He had to listen to their haunting cheers.
"Go green. Go white. Go State."
And he couldn't silence those cheers with a goal.
The Crimson was playing in its biggest game of the year--its biggest game in three years--and Scott Fusco was watching.
He strained knee ligaments on the opening shift of the first period of Harvard's semifinal game against Denver Friday.
His team won without him.
But his team wasn't winning now.
Late in the third period, Harvard was losing 6-5.
And he wasn't on the ice.
And behind him, the cheers were getting louder.
"I felt very helpless," Fusco said. "I felt like I let the team down. When they really needed me, I wasn't there."
But his teammates thought they could win without him.
They missed him, but they still thought they could win the national championship.
"We all just had to look at ourselves," defenseman Randy Taylor said. "Not just one player. It's a big setback without Scott. But we felt we could do it."
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