LAWRENCE – It was early on Tuesday afternoon, and Bill Self pushed through a doorway into the Horejsi Family Athletics Center, where his Kansas men’s basketball team was running through ball-handling drills for a gym full of young summer campers.
A line of KU players stood on the near baseline, each dribbling two basketballs, while assistant coach Kurtis Townsend called out a series of instructions. Self found a spot a few feet away, nodding in the direction of incoming freshman Lagerald Vick.
“This kid is an athlete,” Self said.
After just five days on campus, the athleticism is indeed the first thing you notice about Vick, the least heralded (and least known) member of the Jayhawks’ 2015 recruiting class.