Except for the most crazed of Kentucky fans, no one thinks getting to the Final Four is easy. But the road taken by former UK player Charles Matthews was especially long and winding.
Before he and his Michigan teammates reserved a spot in San Antonio via victories in Wichita and Los Angeles, Matthews traveled from his native Chicago to Lexington and then to Ann Arbor.
Matthews played for UK in the 2015-16 season. Then he moved to Michigan, where he sat out the 2016-17 season as a transfer.
“It was special,” he said in Los Angeles of playing in the Final Four in San Antonio this weekend.