The University of Nebraska at Omaha confirmed Sunday the death of men's basketball player Deng Mayar, who drowned at Blackridge Reservoir in Herriman, Utah, on Saturday. He was 22. Mayar joined the Omaha program this offseason through the transfer portal.

Nebraska-Omaha basketball player Deng Mayar drowned Saturday in a Utah reservoir, police said. Herriman police said Mayar died at Blackridge Reservoir after going underwater about 35 yards from shore.

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.