East Lansing — Mady Sissoko is a normal college student, in the sense that when his family back home sees him on America’s biggest stages, they notice the things that normal families do.
“Mostly, they’re just amazed how my body’s changed or how I look now. How’s my hair changed?” Sissoko joked at the Breslin Center on Thursday.
Truth is, they don’t know much about basketball or America. But the combination of those two things has allowed Sissoko, a native of the West African country of Mali and a junior on Michigan State’s basketball team, to help the next generation visualize their own success.