Matthew-Alexander Moncrieffe studied inside a meeting room deep inside a sprawling basketball campus in Mono, Ontario.
Flanked by several coaches, he dissected film from a January game of Oklahoma State’s horrid Big 12 start. Moncrieffe and his Orangeville Prep coaches watched closely. They looked at anything and everything.
Synergy stats. Style of play.
How Moncrieffe might fit.
They broke down film of Seton Hall and Georgetown in the same way.
But Moncrieffe saw something special about OSU and coach Mike Boynton when January became February. The Cowboys turned things around on the court and won over Canada’s top basketball player.