NEW ORLEANS — Lounging in a golf cart just outside the Caesars Superdome interview room, moments before hitching a ride to the Kansas Jayhawks’ locker room, Ochai Agbaji on Saturday night discussed the fulfillment of a dream.
“The Final Four is cool. Playing for the national title is even better. It’s wild because we always talk about it. This is what you want in the summer. Everyone is kind of ‘national championship, national championship.’ Every player at every school can say ‘national championship’ in the summer. To actually be in the game and be in this moment is surreal now,” said Agbaji, KU’s 6-foot-5 senior guard out of Oak Park High School in Kansas City, Mo.
He was speaking after scoring 21 points on 6-of-8 shooting — 6-of-7 shooting from 3-point range — in KU’s 81-65 victory over Villanova in a men’s Final Four semifinal in the Big Easy.
