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Bill Plaschke: UCLA point guard Tyger Campbell responds to offensive hair taunts with clutch play

LOS ANGELES — The first thing you notice is the hair. Of course you do. Everybody does. It's one of the talking points of the NCAA Tournament. Reporters have asked about it. Announcers have wondered about it. The cameras are in love with it. "It's just my hair to me … it just looks all crazy," UCLA's Tyger Campbell said with a chuckle. It's crazy spectacular, this wondrous collection of ...
Mary's in the second round of the NCAA Tournament at Moda Center on March 19, 2022, in Portland, Oregon.

LOS ANGELES — The first thing you notice is the hair.

Of course you do. Everybody does. It's one of the talking points of the NCAA Tournament. Reporters have asked about it. Announcers have wondered about it. The cameras are in love with it.

"It's just my hair to me … it just looks all crazy," UCLA's Tyger Campbell said with a chuckle.

It's crazy spectacular, this wondrous collection of freeform dreadlocks that rise from Campbell's regal smile like some majestic crown.

He began letting it grow when he was 11 because he hated getting haircuts. He later decided he wanted to express himself through dreds, and his parents acquiesced in exchange for a guarantee that he would not express himself through tattoos. Today

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