Clay Young, a Kansas basketball walk-on listed at 6 feet 5, but according to coach Bill Self might actually be 6-3, more than held his own Saturday when matched defensively against 7-foot-2 Paschal Chukwu of Syracuse.
“I guarded some 7-footers back at juco. But he’s probably the tallest guy I ever guarded,” said Young, KU’s 205-pound senior forward from Lansing High and Kansas City Kansas Community College, after filling in for foul-plagued bigs Udoka Azubuike and Mitch Lightfoot in the first half of KU’s 76-60 victory over the Orange at American Airlines Arena.
Young — he didn’t take a shot but had one assist in a nine-minute first-half stint — was on the court during a 16-4 run in the final 6:21 of the first half.