Long-time Arkansas Hawks AAU basketball coach Bill Ingram started to see a familiar face — that of University of Kansas assistant Kurtis Townsend — at his team’s games during the July recruiting period.
Eventually, Townsend was joined in the stands by KU head coach Bill Self in studying every move of 6-foot-1 Hawks point guard/shooting guard Issac McBride.
“When they got interested in him,” Ingram said of KU’s coaches, “I said, ‘They are trying to get another Frank Mason. That’s Frank Mason except he shoots it better.’’’
Ingram said in a Tuesday interview that indeed, McBride, who is ranked No.