It’s highly unlikely that Kevin Easley will be having any on-court blowups in his first season with the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga men’s basketball team.
He’ll have yoga to thank for that.
The UTC freshman and highest-rated recruit in school history started the exercise system prior to his 12th-grade year with two of his friends, one of whose mom was a yoga instructor. Initially thinking it would be “easy,” he quickly found out it was the complete opposite.
“There was one exercise where I was standing on the upper part of my back for 15-20 seconds,” the 6-foot-6 Easley recalled. “It was fun, but it was hard for me being a tall guy in a small room.”
Easley continued yoga a couple of times a week, which decreased to once weekly during his final season at Lawrence North High School in Indianapolis, where he averaged 18 points, eight rebounds and two blocked shots per game. He was ranked as a four-star prospect by ESPN and a three-star by 247Sports.com and was rated as the No. 35 small forward nationally and the No. 6 player in Indiana.