John Shulman didn’t sleep very long Wednesday night because he arrived home about 2 a.m. and had a 6:30 alarm to rise with his three sons.
But the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga men’s basketball coach had his most restful night in weeks.
Wednesday afternoon, he received scholarship papers from 6-foot-9 Emmanuel Ochenje, who at one point was the top-rated player in Illinois before essentially skipping ahead a year in high school.
Then in the evening, Shulman’s Mocs squad beat the team that thumped Georgia Tech by 17 points on Monday.
UTC pulled out a 73-69 victory at Kennesaw State from the clutches of defeat with self-described “goofballs” making critical plays in crucial moments.