Courtney Ramey led Texas to a Maui Invitational title two years ago, when the event was held in Asheville, North Carolina.
Arizona’s grad transfer guard, who will make his Wildcat debut in the Maui Invitational on Monday against Cincinnati, actually played in college basketball’s premier early-season event two years ago for Texas.No Maui, at all.The games were played about as far away from Lahaina as possible in the United States, at a place known as Harrah’s Cherokee Center in Asheville, North Carolina. And, yes, there were surfboards in the stands … fronted by rows and rows of cardboard"fans.
Ramey said then-Texas coach Shaka Smart told the Longhorns that not having fans wasn’t an excuse not to have energy, and Ramey created his own. In the final seconds against Davidson, Ramey found an open lane to the basket to make the game-winning layup. "A program like that that’s been good for years and years, I think you just try to take any opportunity and flip it on them," Ramey said."We just knew we wanted to attack them early, and that's what we did. They fought back in the second half but I think our leadership and our experience helped us win."
The suspension was the first of its kind, because Ramey was playing in the Portsmouth Invitational, an event that never needed to be NCAA-certified because it was only open to seniors who had exhausted their college eligibility. Ramey withdrew from the NBA Draft on the June 1, then committed to Arizona nine days later. Then the three-game suspension landed — one UA game for each of the three Portsmouth games he played in — and Ramey’s appeal failed.
While Kriisa remains the Wildcats’ top point guard, Ramey is expected to start off the ball while either he or freshman Kylan Boswell takes over on the ball when Kriisa is out.
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