Detroit Free Press · Oct 23, 2018
How Michigan's Jordan Poole handled celebrity status after game-winner
(Photo: Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press)First came the shot. Then the fame, and with it, tens of thousands of followers on social media.
What did Jordan Poole do?
He deleted his Twitter and Snapchat, and temporarily deactivated his Instagram.
“We just wanted to buckle down and stay locked in and stay focused on ourselves,” Poole said Monday, “and I feel like that’s what I did this summer all the way up until now.”
Poole’s buzzer-beating, game-winning 3-pointer against Houston in the NCAA tournament introduced him to the nation. It also brought unintended consequences — waves of attention that made social media "overwhelming."
