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This prospect has a Mizzou connection, but his dad played for KU’s Bill Self

Bryce Thompson has two distinctive memories of his childhood basketball career: his workouts as a 5-year-old with Marco Harris, a current operations assistant for Mizzou basketball … and his dad’s stories about playing for Kansas coach Bill Self.

Self heavily recruited Thompson’s father, Rod Thompson, when the current Kansas coach was starting his career at Oral Roberts. Rod Thompson chose Tulsa and spent his final college years under Self when Self moved across town to coach the Golden Hurricane.

Harris got his start in coaching alongside Rod Thompson as both an assistant at Booker T.