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CLEVELAND — In the waning minutes, as it became increasingly obvious that Eastern Michigan University’s basketball season was about to end in Thursday’s Mid-American Conference Tournament quarterfinals, frustration engulfed the face of Travis Lewis.
By the time the senior swingman and former Loy Norrix standout finished his duties at the postgame podium, his mood had turned somber.
Lewis, a scholarship member of the football team who walked on to the basketball team in the middle of the 2005-06 season, is done as an athlete at Eastern Michigan.
“Both with football and basketball, I’m going to miss putting on an Eastern Michigan jersey,” Lewis said, after scoring three points and grabbing eight rebounds before fouling out with 1:37 left in the Eagles’ 70-61 loss to Western Michigan.
“My entire career I’ve been the underdog, but it made our team come closer together. It’s been a great experience, it’s been fun. The only thing I didn’t accomplish was getting a ring, so that’s the thing that really hurts the most.
“I experienced a lot of things that made me better as a person, from the struggles and ups and downs that we had here. It’s just, it’s going to be a hard step to take now, not being able to put on that jersey in the fall and put it on again in the winter. Man, it’s … I’m going to miss it.”

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