Police Called On Kansas Basketball Fan Who Showed Up At Player Dorms To Offer Free Throw Advice

Dent8 years ago

“You’ve gotta make your free throws,” yelled the overweight, out-of-shape, balding heap of garbage from 20 rows up. One of the reasons why I love college sports is the dynamics of the diehard fans. Middle-aged men will put all of their hopes and dreams into the hands of a bunch of 18-year-olds, but if those kids can’t deliver? You better believe those same men will be the first ones to throw them under the bus.

So it’s really no surprise that after a stretch of painfully bad free throw shooting caused the University of Kansas basketball team to lose a major game Tuesday night, there was a disgruntled fan wandering around their dorm Wednesday afternoon looking for answers.

From Lawrence Journal-World:

University of Kansas police were called to the men’s basketball dorm Wednesday afternoon, where a man reportedly kept showing up to give a resident there some “free-throw advice.”

I assume that pep talk sounded a little something like this: “Hey boys, just wanted to stop by and see if I could offer up any expertise on the whole free throw issue. Have you ever thought about trying granny style?” Either that or the guy just bragged about how he is money from the charity stripe in his old man’s rec league.

Of course, he wasn’t just there to see anybody. There was presumably one Kansas player in particular at whom the advice was directed.

In the final 3:37 of the KU’s 85-80 loss to Oklahoma Tuesday night in Norman, Oklahoma decided to repeatedly foul Udoka Azubuike, sophomore center from Nigeria, in hopes he’d miss his free throws. And the strategy played out just like Oklahoma wanted.

Azubuike — shooting an abnormally low .375 from the free-throw line — went 1 for 8 in free-throw shooting for the game. In the final 3:37 he went 0 for 6.

Come on, Udoka. I was an admittedly abysmal free throw shooter in my prep days and even I could manage to clear 50%. If we’re going to call the police on anybody, make it him because that is a criminally bad performance. Honestly, I don’t see anything wrong with boosters raising all kinds of hell given those stats. What’s the point in illegally funneling a kid hundreds of thousands of dollars if he can’t even outshoot your daughter’s fifth grade YMCA team?

Either show results or feel the wrath of fans who have nowhere better to be on a Wednesday afternoon; it’s that simple. Ball’s in your court, KU..

[via Lawrence Journal-World]

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