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Lucas: Kessler Finding Home On And Off Court

By Adam Lucas

Maybe you have to spend frequent time around college basketball players—or college students in general, really—in order to fully appreciate this next scenario.

How to put this: many college students, especially younger college students, don't always have a tremendous interest in what's happening around them. They are in a completely new environment, classes are difficult, the social situation is stressful, and they have far too many problems to ponder what's happening with anyone other than themselves.

With that in mind, consider what happened with Walker Kessler last week at the Smith Center.