Don’t think for a second that Kansas basketball coaches showed Andrew White III the door after last season.
Quite the contrary.
“We loved him and we hated that he left,” KU assistant coach Jerrance Howard said in a phone interview, “but, you know, it was a situation where he wanted to play, and play right away and play good minutes.”
White, a 6-foot-6, 210-pound wing, is transferring from Kansas after two seasons. He visited Nebraska last week, and Howard, a former player under Bill Self at Illinois who’s entering his second season on Self’s KU staff, said White would be a “great fit” in Tim Miles’ system at Nebraska.
“I’m a huge Tim Miles fan. I’m a big fan since Colorado State,” Howard said. “I think he has a lot of similarities to Coach Self and our program and what Coach Self has always been about, and that’s play hard and guard.
“Andrew White would be great in his system, because it wasn’t ever about if he was good enough. We just had so many numbers with Andrew Wiggins and Wayne (Selden) on the wings. He’s a great kid, and he can shoot the basketball and really rebound the ball. Those are his two strengths, to me. He’s a pure shooter.”