HUNTINGTON – When Ky’re Allison takes the floor as a Marshall men’s basketball rookie next season, he will be wearing No. 5.
Maybe the freshman point guard really should have 52 – the number on the U.S. highway that connects his nearby southern Ohio hometown with Herdland.
“It’s close to home, right down the road,” Allison said last week after reporting for his NCAA Division I hoops introduction. “I really liked the program. I liked the coaching staff; they made me feel at home, too. They’ll want me to succeed athletically and academically. And this close, I’ll be able to have same type of support I did in high school.