Oumar Ballo helped Arizona win the 2022 Maui Invitational. He’s hoping he can give the Hoosiers a similar effort at Battle 4 Atlantis.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – It’s been a little while since Indiana’s men’s basketball program had a championship run at a multi-team exempt tournament that didn’t exclusively take place at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall.
However, the transfer portal can bring that winning experience to a team. And so it is for Indiana center Oumar Ballo. “These kinds of events are great for any team. I was fortunate enough to win in Maui, three games, three days apart,” Ballo said on Tuesday from The Bahamas. “We’ve got to take it game by game as coach says and see how it leads us.”He’s off to a solid start. His 12 points per game scoring average is below his peak of 14.2 points per game from that 2022-23 season at Arizona, but close to his 12.9 points he averaged for the Wildcats in 2023-24.
“He's been everything that I thought when we were recruiting him and going through the process. A well-mannered young man that works. Very coachable,” Woodson said. “He’s been everything I can ask as a big man.” “He’s still trying to learn who I am as a coach, and I'm trying to learn his game and what he likes to do on both ends of the floor,” Woodson said.
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