DENVER -- Brian Burg says the first act that led the UALR men's basketball team to the Pepsi Center this week came in April, on the campus of a west Texas junior college.
Burg had just been hired as a Trojans assistant coach by first-year UALR Coach Chris Beard, and their first stop in filling out a depleted roster was to visit Howard College. Their target was a 6-11 center who started his playing career in Peje, Kosovo, and ended up as the first of 10 new additions who expedited Beard's building process.
"It was a whirlwind," said Burg, standing outside UALR's locker room Wednesday.