Imagine you’re a senior in the middle of the battle that is March Madness.
Every game can be your last, but you keep fighting, pushing, making it to the next step with the dream in the back of your mind that it’s possible to win the national championship.
And then, it all falls apart. In the Sweet 16 against a heated conference rival, you let a lead slip, and before you can realize it, you’re out.
Tournament over. Career over.
And as you sit in a foreign locker room, trying to gather your thoughts, you look up, and a teammate is filming you with high-tech glasses.
How would you feel?
That’s the current situation going on with the Nebraska men’s basketball team, which lost on Friday to the Iowa Hawkeyes in the national college basketball tournament.
Connor Essegian is a player on the team, and he’s gained fame on social media by documenting everything that’s gone on with Cornhuskers basketball this season.
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A senior, Essegian hadn’t played in a game since November, but was a stalwart member of the team on the bench.
Following the team’s loss to Iowa, as he has most of the season, he put out a video going over what happened with the team right after the game. Essegian showed footage of some of his teammates in tears, putting the “The pain of losing always hurts…” over it.
Although he might not have intended it to be received negatively, an avalanche of disgruntled fans weighed in on Essegian for making content out of a private moment between his teammates.
“Imagine having your teammate film you with Meta glasses crying in your locker room after your season just ended,” posted a viewer on X, which prompted thousands of responses from across the globe, proverbially dunking on Essegian.
Although most of the replies were memes or jokes, one Nebraska alum gave their raw thoughts on the situation.
“Plain and simple, Conner Essegian crossed a line,” they wrote. “A locker room is a place built on trust where teammates let their guard down. When that privacy is violated, it does not just go away with an apology. He made a regrettable decision.”
Iowa will play another Big Ten rival, Illinois, later today for a spot in the Final Four.
