Silvio De Sousa never gave up hope that he’d wear his No. 22 University of Kansas basketball jersey in an actual game during his sophomore season at KU.
“We were expecting him to play tomorrow. The kid has been bringing his jersey (on trips) the past couple of games: ‘Maybe today is the day they’ll play me.’ It is what was supposed to happen,” Fenny Falmagne, guardian and mentor of De Sousa, told The Star on Friday.
Not only will De Sousa, a 6-foot-9, 245-pound sophomore from Angola — who has been practicing all season while being held out of games — not play Saturday against Texas Tech, but he will miss the rest of the season as well as the next.