STILLWATER — Cade Cunningham first felt the wave of emotions and realized he needed to take a step back — at the very least for a day.
Those 24 hours were all the No. 1-ranked player in the country needed last month to reaffirm his college choice of Oklahoma State.
He just didn’t really tell anybody.
“I announced that I was gonna come back later, just because I let the media do their thing,” Cunningham said. “It didn’t really matter too much to me. So, I was just kinda chilling away from my phone.
“But I knew where I was going.