The new life Innocent Nwoko embarked on in 2013 was not supposed to include basketball.
Nwoko, now a freshman on the Central Michigan men’s basketball team, was fully concentrated on advancing his education and playing the sport of soccer that he was so passionate about when he moved halfway across the world from Nigeria to Michigan four years ago.
A future playing college basketball had not even entered Nwoko’s mind.
“The person who brought me here told me he wanted me to get an education,” Nwoko said. “I never thought I’d be playing college basketball when I came over here.