Matee Ajavon took the ovation. She solemnly raised her right hand to the bellowing crowd behind the Scarlet Knights' bench, fell into her coach's bearhug, and left the final game of her four-year Rutgers run with 4.6 seconds on the clock, five fouls and the sound of her name in her ears. Essence Carson — she didn't even look C. Vivian Stringer's way lest the coach signal her out, too. Carson went sprawling on the floor in those last ticks and she launched a three, wholly unwilling to trade a salving applause for even a second of this regional final gut-wrencher.

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