Recent IMG Academy graduate Silvio De Sousa has been on the University of Kansas campus for a little more than three weeks, long enough to realize he really, truly is not in high school any more.
“I feel like the difference is that in college you play with men. In high school it’s more like you play with boys and all that stuff,” De Sousa, a 6-foot-9, 245-pound native of Angola, said Thursday in speaking with media members for the first time since arriving at KU late on the night of Dec. 26.
“When I was in high school, people used to say I’m a grown man because of the way I’m built.