Former Arizona Gatorade Player of the Year Mitch Lightfoot seriously considered accepting a scholarship offer from Arizona State coach Bobby Hurley.
“I thought he was a great coach, plays at a very high tempo, (which is) something I like. He’s a great dude,” Lightfoot, Kansas’ 6-foot-8, 210-pound sophomore power forward, said of the former Duke guard, whose third Sun Devil team is 8-0 and ranked No. 16 in the country heading into Sunday’s 1 p.m. nonconference clash at No. 2 KU.
“Obviously he played at Duke with (Christian) Laettner. I was going to say (Bill) Lambeer,” Lightfoot added with a laugh.