CHICAGO — Donovan Dent seemed relaxed as he sat at his locker. He gripped his phone as he lounged back in a fold-up chair, briefly opening Instagram as a group of reporters moved to swarm him.
There, he couldn’t escape clips of himself knocking down stepback 3-pointers or twisting midair to finish layups amid crowds of defenders, though he didn’t seem to want to.
Dent had just scored 23 points as No. 6-seeded UCLA dismantled No. 3-seeded Michigan State in an 88-84 Big Ten Tournament quarterfinal victory. Meanwhile, the senior guard had just dished out 12 assists to add to a total of 77 in the past seven games, with just six turnovers in that span…