Somto Cyril remembers the first time he wanted to be a Kentucky Wildcat. Still learning about the game of basketball, he turned to YouTube for help — cut-ups of some of the sport’s top standouts at the time.
He first saw one of the greatest players to ever touch a basketball. Not a bad place to start. Then he found highlights of an all-time Wildcat, someone who helped bring banner No. 8 home to Lexington.
“I grew up in Nigeria, didn’t know anything about basketball. I think like two months after I started playing — as a kid, I didn’t know much, so I was like, ‘How can I get better?