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OU basketball: Jim Molinari brings veteran energy to Sooner staff

NORMAN — Jim Molinari crouched at the top of the 3-point line. Dribbling right, he waited for the defense to react.

“Up, up, up,” he yelled with March intensity on a June afternoon.

Molinari’s energy can hardly be matched even by players a third of his age. Earlier that same day, the 64-year-old Oklahoma assistant with square glasses and black streaks in otherwise silver hair joined the Sooners in running 18 100-yard sprints on the rugby field.

Asked why, Molinari cited Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War.”

“The general should do what the troops do,” Molinari said.