Editor’s note: This story contains mentions of racist messages and suicide.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Before he’d even reached his locker, threats were already pouring in to Zeke Mayo’s phone.

The senior guard for the Kansas Jayhawks and Lawrence native walked off the floor following his worst game of the season -- a 5-point, 5-turnover performance that featured a season-worst 1-for-7 shooting from the floor -- and opened his phone to a nightmare.

“It was just a bunch of racist stuff,” Mayo recalled to KCTV. “People telling me to kill myself. (Saying) if they ever saw me out in public, they would do this or that.”

Mayo saw the messages that arrived in his Twitter feed and Instagram DMs and took to social media, apologizing for his play in the 78-73 loss to Texas Tech.

“I 100% deserve

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