The 18 year old at the center of one of college basketball’s best stories went full giggle when presented with the absurdity of it all.
“It really has been wild,” Ochai Agbaji said.
He is the son of a Kansas City city planner and Northland kindergarten teacher, a good and serious student from Oak Park High who was the nation’s 145th-best prospect in his class according to Rivals. Late into his senior year, he was judging offers from Colorado State, Air Force and Fresno State.
Now, he is a 6-foot-6 starting guard for Kansas, the No.