Mouth madness! UCLA's Skyy Clark grins and bears it after tooth bites the dust in NCAA Tournament
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Skyy Clark flashed a gap-toothed smile and said there was only one place to put a chunk of the top front tooth that he lost during UCLA's NCAA Tournament win over UCF. Under the pillow, of course. There was no telling what Clark would find there in the morning — though if anyone in the Philadelphia area had the name of an oral surgeon, the Bruins guard would gladly take one.
In the locker room after UCLA beat UCF 75-71 — a win that Clark secured when he shook off throbbing pain to sink a free throw — Clark said he was at about a nine on a scale of 10. “It definitely hurt,” he said. “I have a little lisp going on.
” Clark indeed spoke differently — teammate Eric Dailey Jr. compared him to boxer Mike Tyson — in the aftermath of the incident. “He looked so good in the locker room,” coach Mick Cronin said.
“Looks like a boxer. Keep trying to talk to these guys about my old days. He just looked tough.
Looks tough. In the locker room, smiling. There’s blood.