Three powerful frontcourt players off Kansas’ 2008 NCAA championship team gathered in the basketball locker room immediately after the Jayhawks’ 77-69 come-from-behind victory over West Virginia on Saturday at Allen Fieldhouse.
“We had Shady (Darrell Arthur) in there, had Sasha (Kaun) and had Cole (Aldrich) in there. Those are three pretty good bigs. There were only a handful of games those bigs played better than what Udoka did tonight,” KU coach Bill Self said after 7-foot sophomore Udoka Azubuike’s 21-point, 5-rebound, 3-block and 2-steal outing.
“Shady getting 20 and 10 in the national championship game still probably trumps it.