It seemed bad. That much we know. I mean, really, tear an ACL, sprain a MCL and end your otherwise spectacular college career with nine minutes left in the Final Four as your coach holds your head in his hands?

That’s not the way it was supposed to end for Da’Sean Butler.

Which is precisely why he hasn’t allowed that to be the ending or the way he’s going to be remembered. Life after surgery, as he would say, “sucks” from time to time, but not all the time. He won’t allow that.

Believe this: “I’m telling you, I’m having a good time.”