Mike Boynton’s initial trips to Bowie High School in the fall of 2016 were not to see Cade Cunningham.
Cade was just a freshman at the Arlington high school. Boynton was there as an assistant at Oklahoma State recruiting Kyler Edwards, who ended up at Texas Tech. It was on a trip to see Edwards where Boynton noticed another tall kid, who Boynton assumed was 17 years old. He asked Bowie coach Allen Gratts about Cade, and the trajectory of Oklahoma State basketball changed.
“I really thought he was a senior, to be perfectly honest, when I first saw him,” Boynton, now OSU’s head coach, said last November.