College basketball player E.J. Liddell tweeted screenshots of threats and hateful messages he received from angry fans after his team’s early exit from the NCAA Tournament on Friday. The messages to the Ohio State forward include racial insults and direct threats of harm. “Don’t ever show your face at Ohio state,” someone wrote in one of the messages. “We hate you. I hope you die I really do.” “Honestly, what did I do to deserve this? I’m human,” Liddell tweeted alongside the screenshots. “Comments don’t get to me but I just wanna know why. I’ve never done anything to anyone in my life to be approached like this.” Head men’s basketball coach Chris Holtmann said in a tweet Saturday morning that the messages sent to Liddell are “vile, dangerous and reflect the worst of humanity.” The Buckeyes fell 75-72 in overtime to No. 15-seeded Oral Roberts during the tournament’s first…
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