This article originally appeared in the Feb. 15, 2016, issue of Sports Illustrated. It has been updated to reflect the most recent statistics and developments. Subscribe to the magazine here.
The Lloyd Noble Center, Oklahoma's 41-year-old basketball arena, is a concrete island in the middle of a parking lot sea, set far enough from other campus buildings that on nongame nights, one of its practice gyms can secretly double as the most deafening and exclusive dancehall-reggae club in Tornado Alley. On a Thursday evening in late January it's a club for one dancer only, and his name is Buddy Hield, aka Buddy Love, of Eight Mile Rock on Grand Bahama Island. He's in a slow-motion swagger, with low…
