Why Kentucky? Cherif Millogo's coach: 'It feels like home.'

Todd Wolfson will be happy to tell you that the opportunity to coach 7-foot-5 center Cherif Millogo at St. Francis simply fell into his lap—a “lucky coincidence,” as he calls it.

There was no red carpet or extravagant recruiting pitch necessary. Former UCLA star and longtime NBA player Luc Mbah a Moute is Millogo’s guardian and, growing up in Cameroon, attended a Franciscan school similar to St. Francis—the only one in Southern California where they live.

“So the connection just kind of happened,” Wolfson told KSR.

The larger-than-life talent walked through his door; now the longtime varsity head coach had to decide what to do with a guy still relatively new to the game but already comfortable…