Billy Preston survived his first Kansas basketball Boot Camp with a little help from his friends.
“With my teammates behind me and the coaching staff behind me … everybody in the gym basically at 6:15 in the morning to 7:15 has got your back,” Preston, the Jayhawks’ 6-foot-10, 240-pound freshman forward from Los Angeles said Wednesday after completing the eighth and final Boot Camp conditioning workout of the 2017-18 school year.
“I just got past it and pushed myself past my limits,” Preston added.
Preston drew the praise of coach Bill Self after Friday’s fifth workout, which like the rest consisted of an hour’s worth of sprints, defensive slides and backboard touches.