I asked Ben Humrichous - a former NAIA player who just competed in the Final Four - if he has an appreciation for that unlikely journey.
I was moved by his answer.
"When the buzzer sounded all I wanted to say was praise God - for the gift that this was... By God's grace... It's unlikely... God's sovereign hand being that in that... He did so many incredible things... God's grace just supplied what I need."
@BHumrichous
The Greeks and Romans once sat at the feet of the ancient African kings of Kemet, now known as Egypt. Admiration turned to jealousy, then to contempt and invasion. How soon we forget.
The Greeks came to Egypt (Kemet) as students to learn what Africans already knew, only to return later to invade, destroy the great libraries, scatter the people, and then the Arabs invaded again.
Plato studied in Egypt for 13 years.
Pythagoras studied philosophy, geometry, and medicine in Egypt for 22 years.
Thales, the first Greek philosopher, studied in Egypt for 7 years.
Hippocrates, called the father of medicine, recognized the Egyptian multigenius Imhotep as the true father of medicine.
The "Pythagorean Theorem" was used to build the pyramids in Egypt 1,000 years before Pythagoras was born.
Plato said Egyptian education makes students more alert and humane.
He told his students to go to Egypt if they wanted to deepen their understanding of great philosophers.
Herodotus, the Greek historian, described ancient Egypt as the cradle of civilization.
Never forget.
Most folks dont even know Joe Louis saved Jackie Robinson from being hung for assaulting a white soldier ranked higher than him before he was supposed to go to Officer Candidate School. Jackie was called a n#gger by that soldier & Jackie beat him down. He was gonna be beaten down & hung which was common for blacks in the military at that time. Joe Louis stepped in & saved Robinson by speaking to a superior officer who was a Joe Louis fan & Jackie was sent to Ft. Hood in TX & finished his military career before he became the ICON that we all know.