Rising basketball player Deng Mayar dies
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College basketball player Deng Mayar died in an incident at Blackridge Reservoir in Utah on Saturday. Mayar, 22, who transferred from North Dakota to Omaha earlier this summer, began struggling in the water alongside a friend, Sa Mafutaga, who managed to reach the shore.
The University of Nebraska Omaha is mourning the death of a basketball played that joined the Mavericks this offseason.