Jaylen Butz was in the car with his mother the first time he heard from Rick Stansbury.
The 6-foot-9, 230-pound former forward at DePaul hadn’t played since the 2019-20 season but entered the transfer portal in January to look for a new home.
Western Kentucky’s head coach was searching for a forward with big men Charles Bassey and Carson Williams gone from the previous team, so he Facetimed Butz.
“He was real to me. He let me know what he was looking for as a player,” Butz said. “It was with my mom, we were just driving and he happened to call me and we talked for about an hour, honestly.