Silvio De Sousa glanced at fellow Kansas big man Mitch Lightfoot’s left hand as he checked into the KU-Oklahoma game in the first half Monday night at Allen Fieldhouse.
“I saw Mitch. He wrote on his wrist, ‘rebounding and defense.’ I took that as motivation. I went out and did it on the court,” said De Sousa, KU’s 6-foot-9, 245-pound freshman forward out of IMG Academy.
De Sousa, a seldom-used big man, scored a career-high 10 points and grabbed a career-best six rebounds in a career-most 13 minutes in the Jayhawks’ 104-74 victory over the Sooners. The victory gave No.