OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Five years ago, Isaac Jones was fresh out of high school and working 9-to-5 pulling industrial pipes from a storage yard and loading trucks for a company in the Seattle area.
“Same thing over and over again,” he said Friday.
Saturday night, Jones will be in the starting lineup for Washington State playing in the NCAA Tournament against Iowa State for a spot in the Sweet 16.
It's almost unfathomable how far Jones has come, from being a raw and undersized high school player who had no college offers to a 6-foot-9 first-team All-Pac-12 pick and the Cougars' leading scorer and rebounder in his one and only year with them.