Lauressa “LaLa” Vick isn’t the least bit surprised her son, Lagerald, is on an uptick heading into Kansas’ Sweet 16 battle against Clemson on Friday night at CenturyLink Center in Omaha, Neb.
“When March Madness hit, he called me. He was like, ‘We’re gonna win, mom. I got this. I’m better than this,’” LaLa said Tuesday night in a phone conversation with The Star. “I saw this coming anyway. I saw him getting himself ready during the Big 12 Tournament. I knew March Madness was going to be all right for him.”
Lagerald Vick, KU’s 6-foot-5 junior combo guard from Memphis, who combined for just 14 points on 6-of-19 shooting and was 1 of 10 from three-point range in the final three games of the regular season, has produced double-figure points in five straight postseason games.