One thing Proviso East guard Jevon Carter was sure of as he packed his bags for his freshman year at West Virginia University in 2014: Though he was smaller than most, he played harder than anybody.
It had been at the heart of his ascent from neighborhood nobody to college prospect. It was why famously tough Mountaineers coach Bob Huggins had wanted him. Maybe it was going to be his ticket to the NBA someday.
Then Carter got to campus and met “the treadmill.” Whatever Carter had known about playing hard prior to that suddenly could fit inside a thimble.