With 1:25 remaining in the first half of Thursday's game against Oklahoma State, and with Kansas' two big men — Mitch Lightfoot and Silvio De Sousa — each with two fouls, Jayhawks coach Bill Self looked down his bench and called for James Sosinski.
Sosinski's use was made necessary by the injury Kansas' starting center Udoka Azubuike suffered in practice Tuesday.
Azubuike is out for the Big 12 Tournament, though Self expressed optimism that he'd be able to return for the NCAA Tournament.
Sosinski's journey the Kansas basketball team was a winding one, taking him from signing with UMass football as a quarterback to Phoenix's South Mountain Community College as a basketball player to Lawrence as a backup tight end — a position he'd never played before — on David Beaty's football team.