Eze, Oladele originally came to the United States to show their talents on the basketball court.
NOTE: The Obinna Eze-Kayode Oladele feature first appeared in the Sept. 26 Memphis Football GameDay program when the Tigers hosted Navy.
They came to the United States from their native Nigeria as high school students with dreams of parlaying their basketball talents into scholarship offers from American colleges.
Along the way, another sport and another dream intervened, sending Obinna Eze and Kayode Oladele in a different direction, a path that eventually led them to the University of Memphis.