INDIANAPOLIS – When Jair Bolden started out in college basketball, his goal was to make it to the NBA. To win games. To play in the NCAA tournament.
Nearly six years later, his passion for the sport is the same. His priorities have changed.
“The reason I’m here is to help others,” he said. “That’s something I’ve learned since I was 18, when it was the world. It still is the world.
“Basketball is a game that I love very much. It’s not who I am. It’s what I do.”
Bolden is one of Butler’s six fifth- and sixth-year players who will participate in a senior day ceremony Saturday after the Big East game against No.