Martynas Bareika has never met fellow Lithuanian basketball player Mindaugas Katelynas.
But Bareika knows of the success that Katelynas brought to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga – the 2005 Southern Conference championship.
Bareika will follow Katelynas’ footsteps and play his college basketball in McKenzie Arena.
A few documents need to be finalized, but the 6-foot-5 point guard will begin playing in the fall and have five years to play four seasons for the Mocs.
“I think it is the atmosphere that I liked,” Bareika said via Facebook. “I really liked the coaches, met some of the team and they looked like cool guys.”