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catmandoo
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posted 06-17-2019 10:32 AM
“Granted I’m four, five years older than these guys,” Travis said last month, sitting in a lounge outside the locker room of Kentucky’s practice facility. “But I am here for a year, similar to them.”
Travis’s decision was striking because, for more than a decade, Calipari has been the most popular host of raw freshmen rather than seasoned seniors. His modus operandi at Kentucky has been to accept, without apology, the best 17- and 18-year-olds in July, coach them up and send them off to the N.B.A. the following June. Since Calipari arrived in Lexington in 2009, Kentucky has averaged three first-round picks a year, most of them freshmen. The team has also reached four Final Fours and captured a national title.
Enter Travis, a two-time All-Pac-12 first-teamer who turned 23 in November. He was injured most of one season at Stanford, and a medical redshirt left him with one more year of eligibility. But before leaving Stanford, he walked at graduation with his class; he majored in Science, Technology and Society, a course of study that attracts many of the tech-minded who arrive in Palo Alto with dreams of staying in Silicon Valley after college.
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rlt4uk
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posted 06-17-2019 01:46 PM
This article seems to be a year old.
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Tiptree
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posted 06-17-2019 04:47 PM
Although it seems like a year ago, the article was actually dated March 31, 2019... written just before the NCAA tournament.
Time sure flies.
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