Since their grade-school days, the two often played one-on-one basketball, and Josh would not lose to his little brother. It just never happened.
With the two back home in Cockeysville because of the coronavirus pandemic — Ike returning from his junior year at Legacy Early College in South Carolina and Josh back from his sophomore year at Bowie State — they are training hard together and always closing sessions with those one-on-one challenges.
“Yeah, he beat me for the first time a couple months ago. It was a close game, 5-4,” said Josh, 20, a point guard who transferred to Bowie State from Southern Utah.