KU stars close friends -- thanks to women's studies
Posted: Friday, October 09, 2009 10:13 AM
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Sherron Collins and Cole Aldrich were named preseason co-Big 12 players of the year on Thursday.
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Sherron Collins and Cole Aldrich are pretty much on every conceivable all-american/award list for college hoops this season.
Makes sense. Collins is perhaps the nation’s top point guard, while Aldrich is probably the best center and a surefire NBA lottery pick. They’re among the preseason candidates for the Wooden Award and were just named the preseason co-Big 12 players of the year.
And they’re dynamite together on the court. They’re the best inside-outside combination since J.J. Redick and Shelden Williams (both first-team All-Americans in 2006) and are pretty much always mentioned in the same breath when talking about Kansas.
If you think that kind of attention makes them close friends, you’d be right. But that’s only half of it.
Let this story from the Lawrence Journal-World’s Gary Bedore do the talking:
The two have become even closer than they were last year ... thanks to the class they take at Smith Hall.
Let Collins explain:
“We’re taking this one Women’s Studies class, and it’s like probably 17 women in there, and me and Cole are the only two boys in the class,” Collins said.
“It’s funny. Miss Ballard ... she’s our teacher. She’s great. Class is so interesting and fun. We discuss all types of issues. The women … they gang up on us. They beat up on us a lot. We find a subject to debate, and me and Cole try to stick up, but we always get overpowered. There’s just two of us. We learn to keep our mouths shut now.”
Not always.
“From being in that class, we’ve learned to stick together at all times — on the court and off the court. We have to have each other’s back,” Collins said with a smile.
If there’s one thing Kansas fans are looking for after a rough few weeks of news surrounding their team, it’s a statement like that from their two best players.
If they can handle being overmatched 8-1 in a women’s studies course, they can handle anything that comes their way on the court. Even in March.
