Guard leads Aztecs into Sweet 16 showdown with No. 1 Alabama, and don't count him out: 'I was doubted my whole life'
Northwood University is in Midland, a town in central Michigan along the Tittabawassee River that was established in the early 1800s as a fur trading post. The Timberwolves play basketball at the Division II level in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference.He had a Division I offer, from the University of Detroit Mercy not far from where he grew up, but that was rescinded. He took a visit to a Division II school in Virginia, but then they stopped calling, too.
“I was doubted my whole life,” says Parrish, who scored the key basket against College of Charleston in their opening NCAA Tournament game in Orlando, then led them with 16 points in the 75-52 win against Furman on Saturday. “People thought, ‘Oh, he’s good, but this is his level.’ Then when I got to Div. I , it was, ‘Oh, he’s good, but is he going to play?’ Then when I started playing, it was, ‘Is he going to start?’ Then I ended up starting 57 games.“I’m used to being doubted.
“I told my dad, ‘I just want to go juco,’” Parrish says. “He was like, ‘You’re not going juco.’ He got mad at me. I ended up going to Oakland and figured, I’m here, I might as well make the best of my situation.”Which he did. He didn’t start his first two games as a true freshman, then started the next 57 for the Grizzlies. By his sophomore year, he averaged 12.1 points, shot 46.2 percent on 3s during the conference season and was named to the Horizon League’s all-defensive team.
Parrish visited SDSU in early May, and the serendipity kept coming. Parrish’s father, Emanuel, had joined the Navy out of high school and was part of a F-14 squadron at Miramar air station that was attached to the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier. As their flight landed at Lindbergh Field, Emanuel looked out the window and saw a carrier parked at North Island: the Carl Vinson.
The JAM Center practice facility, with 24-hour access, was a selling point for the ultimate gym rat. But even more than that was players were actually in it, at all hours, the crack of dawn, after midnight. His production, understandably, has been inconsistent — 15 and 10 points in games against Ohio State and Arizona at the Maui Invitational, then two in the overtime loss against Arkansas.
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