BOSTON — The waves of questions came, in layup-line succession, about his pending matchup against Villanova’s Jalen Brunson. And Jevon Carter brushed them away with tight, canned responses, unwilling to allow reporters entry into the friendly fire that’s brewing between him and his former AAU teammate.
West Virginia assistant Larry Harrison was more candid.
He divulged that after West Virginia beat Marshall in the NCAA tournament’s second round, Carter glimpsed ahead to facing Brunson in the Sweet 16 and declared, “I’ve been waiting for this.”
Good friends since their teenage days in Chicago, Carter and Brunson led their AAU team to a national title.