STILLWATER — About a week before Mike Boynton's parent/child basketball camp this weekend, the Oklahoma State coach had to give his 5-year-old son, Ace, a vocabulary lesson.
Boynton and Ace will participate in the camp Friday and Saturday and, like the other campers, will spend the night in campus housing. When Boynton told Ace they would sleep in a dorm, the boy was confused.
“What's dorms?” he said. “What's that mean?”
Boynton tried to offer the simplest explanation he could.
“It's like a house,” he said.
Ace looked around the family's spacious Stillwater home.