Sam Cunliffe doesn’t want anybody to get the wrong idea.
“I love all my sisters. I’m really close to them all,” he said.
Yet the former Arizona State basketball guard — the newest addition to Kansas’ team via transfer — knew several years ago he needed to take drastic measures in order to secure his sanity while living with his mom, Michele; his dad, Mike; and seven sisters in their cozy abode in Kent, Wash.
“I’ve got seven daughters and a wife. That’s eight women in the house,” Mike Cunliffe exclaimed, taking a deep breath before relating a story about Sam’s quest for peace and quiet.