Persuasion from old friends changed Trevor Mastrogiovanni’s life.
Mastrogiovanni was nearing a verbal commitment to an Ivy League school when Oklahoma State freshmen Dustin Plott and Konner Doucet encouraged their former middle school teammate to visit OSU.
Conflict, however, plagued Mastrogiovanni’s mind.
A New Jersey native, Mastrogiovanni wasn’t fond of departing the lush, forested landscape of northwestern Jersey for the flat great plains of north central Oklahoma. Yet, he eventually succumbed to peer pressure and joined his former teammates on the visit. And then he joined them as Cowboys.
Before two Oklahomans and a New Jerseyan joined forces in Stillwater, the relationship traced back to the Mastrogiovanni household in Sparta, N.