STILLWATER – Jeffrey Carroll arrived at Oklahoma State in the summer of 2013, looked around, and immediately felt out of place.
“I remember I came in and I was around Le'Bryan Nash and Marcus Smart and Markel Brown,” Carroll said recently, eyes widening to punctuate the flashback. “I was like, ‘I'm on the same team as Marcus Smart!' I was kind of star-struck. I was that freshman going to practice so nervous that they were going to show me up.
“It's just funny how the table has turned. And it turned in my favor, I think.”
Turned upside down.