James Sosinski sat against the scorer’s table 30 minutes after his Allen Fieldhouse debut, pulling the cell phone out of his sweatpants pocket for a quick glance.
The screen was filled with text messages.
“A lot of people are hitting me up from back home,” he said with a smile. “It’s just kind of cool.”
The transition was complete. Sosinski, who arrived at KU in the summer strictly as a football player, had just scored four points in 4 minutes in his first appearance for the basketball team in a 109-64 victory over Omaha on Monday.