MINNEAPOLIS — Juwan Howard and Daniel Oturu shared a brief conversation after Michigan basketball's 75-67 loss at Minnesota on Sunday afternoon.
Oturu told Howard it was an honor to meet him and wished him luck the rest of the season. Howard told Oturu to keep working, among other things.
Those words meant a lot to the Golden Gophers' star big man.
"It was special to me, because the Fab Five and who he is as a person, at first, when he first came out and we were doing our warm-ups, I was in awe, I was like, 'Man, that's Juwan Howard,' " Oturu said.