What has been the biggest difference between high school and college ball?
College is a lot of hard work! Whenever you take your game to the next level, you find out there is much more work to be done. Most high school programs are kind of laid back, and there’s not a lot of conditioning. Once you get to the college level, it’s a lot of endurance work, a lot of time out on the court. You’re practicing two or three hours, when in high school, you practiced an hour and a half. Here, most of my time goes into basketball. It’s 20 to 25 hours a week, three hours a day, including weights and a lot of hard running. There’s a really big endurance piece that you don’t always see at the high school level, because the game itself is a lot faster paced. How do you keep your grades up with the big time commitment? You’ve got to keep everything in balance. We go to class from about 8 a.m. to noon every day. Then we have practice until 4 or 5 in the afternoon, and then we go to study hall for the rest of the evening. You don’t have time to fool around — you have to take ca
