The 6-foot-4 freshman originally was recruited by Washington, where assistant Quincy Pondexter discovered they were cousins.

Cross-continent conference foes meet on Wednesday in Indianapolis, where No. 11 seed Rutgers takes on 14th-seeded Southern California in the first round of the Big Ten tournament.

A run in the Mountain West tournament and a spot in the postseason would go a long way toward erasing the memories from a sub ...