BOULDER — Few mentors have encouraged and motivated Derrick White more throughout his uniquely nomadic basketball career than Marcus Mason.
And yet even Mason figured White landed just about where he belonged five years ago when the skinny kid from Legend High School in Parker began his Division II career at Colorado-Colorado Springs.
White’s improbable journey from an overlooked and undersized high school prospect to a possible All-Pac-12 Conference selection comes full circle Saturday, when White plays the final regular season home game of his brief Division I career alongside fellow seniors Wesley Gordon, Xavier Johnson, and Josh Fortune as Colorado takes on Cal at the Coors Events Center.