Jackson, Sanogo and Calcaterra also spoke with the team as a group at practice, sharing their experience during the championship run with the freshmen and new graduate transfer Cam Spencer. “Same thing with Adama, I asked him right after practice what he thought, what he saw, and he’s given me advice as well.” “(He was) just giving me advice on what I should do or just how I should carry in my own way because I’m not gonna copy exactly what Andre does, so just try to do it my own way,” Karaban said. Karaban says Jackson knows him better than anyone after last year’s joy ride. Karaban, who started as a redshirt freshman last season, sought out advice from Jackson while he was in town. It’s something they’re working on, and it takes time. “The returning Big Three (Donovan Clingan, Tristen Newton and Alex Karaban), they gotta carry the burden that Jordan, Adama and Andre carried last year and they can never have a bad day, emotionally or relative to coming in and doing the work,” Hurley said. A similar concern was expressed when Jackson was out injured for the first few nonconference games last season, but the team evolved and additional leaders emerged. The void was felt during the three games UConn played in Europe – granted they dominated the foreign competition in mostly empty gyms – when it was quiet in the locker room and in huddles. “But what you learn from a negative standpoint is just how great of leaders Andre and Adama were and how important Joey’s personality was and Jordan’s confidence and approach, how we’ve got to kind of replace those tangible and intangible things.” Guard Courtney Ramey is also coming back after averaging 12.2 points.“I learned during the whole summer that (we have) a talented team, that we’ve got a lot of really exciting pieces again and the potential is definitely gonna be there for us again to have a big season,” Hurley said. Most importantly, star guard Andrew Jones announced that he is returning for another season at UT after averaging a team-high 14.6 points per game. Mitchell, a 6-10 center, averaged 18.0 points and 7.2 rebounds in two seasons at UMass, and the 6-6 Allen averaged 15.6 points in three seasons at Utah and ranks 21st on the school’s all-time scoring list. iSchool of Lewisville coach Brian Nwelue said that Morris turned down that offer.Ĭoming off a 19-8 season in which it won the Big 12 tournament for the first time and beat seven AP-ranked teams, Texas has replenished its roster by signing transfers Tre Mitchell from Massachusetts, Dylan Disu from Vanderbilt, Christian Bishop from Creighton, Timmy Allen from Utah and Devin Askew from Kentucky. Morris was offered the opportunity to join the new Overtime Elite pro basketball league, which pays players at least $100,000 for the season but forces them to give up their high school and college eligibility. The all-state point guard announced in May that he was transferring for his senior year and will play at iSchool of Lewisville, a charter school that plays a national schedule. Morris almost didn’t play at Kimball as a junior, briefly transferring to Prolific Prep in California before returning to Kimball before the start of the season.
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