Watching the A-10 tournament live made me appreciate the atmosphere created when you have college students cheering for their teams, with pep bands, cheerleaders and mascots keeping the fans riled up and rooting hard. Having felt that excitement made me feel especially sad that with all the fun and great basketball generated by the NCAA tournament, tragedy has struck. Jason Ray, the 21-year-old student who was Rameses, the University of North Carolina’s ram mascot, has died from injuries sustained after being stuck by a car three days ago in Ft. Lee, N.J. The mascots are part of the atmosphere on the court and my heart goes out to the students, players and fans from North Carolina who now have more than a lost basketball game to mourn over.