MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – The past few years have been somewhat of a “Where’s Waldo” phase for KK Curry.
He needed to grow up some both on and off the basketball court despite an all-state junior season at Cleveland, so he played his final two seasons up north at two different prep schools where he became one of the region’s top prospects. That eventually led him back down south – South Alabama, to be exact, where he spent a couple of seasons with the Jaguars before his most recent move, to the University of Tennessee at Martin.
But it was a necessary change. It was necessary growth.
“When I was in prep school, I was getting in trouble and things like that, but I just learned that I didn’t want to make my mom (Trese Hickey) mad anymore,” Curry said after a recent loss to Middle Tennessee State University. “The low point was picking up and moving to a different prep school, and my mom having to fork out money for me.
“Now I’m just happy that I learned from my mistakes and I’m not still doing the same stuff.”