With Zach Edey on the verge of winning the Naismith Men's Player of the Year award for a second consecutive season, FOX Sports spoke with the last player to accomplish that: former Virginia center Ralph Sampson.
Four weeks ago, after another hard-fought Big Ten game between a team ranked 10th in the nation and an opponent desperate to find its footing, Illinois head coach Brad Underwood elicited a laugh from the collection of reporters chronicling his news conference at the Breslin Center.
So you've got everybody coming to him, you're setting picks under there, somebody is going to run into you, they're going to hit you, they're going to try to bully you and see if you wanna fight to get out the game. So being his size, you know, I equate that to Wemby and all the big guys that are playing now. You take a physical beating no matter what you do. I know the guards take physical beatings too if they've gotta run off picks with big guys.
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