The summer months might not see as much full team action, for Michigan State basketball, but that isn’t stopping the new faces in East Lansing from making an impact that will be more than heard come the fall.
Transfers Trey Fort and Divine Ugochukwu certainly seem to be fitting in well, especially with how they have looked thus far in the Moneyball Pro-Am. Then again, it’s pretty tough to say what is done during that event carries over into real games.
Still, both have seemed to have found their comfort thus far in the short time in East Lansing. Fort spoke with the media following the first night of Moneyball action. He talked about how, despite Kaleb Glenn’s unfortunate season-ending injury, he’s still very much a part of the team.
Just having him there with us, being able to see him is just going to make us work harder,” Fort said. “We’re doing this not only for us but for him because we know how important this year is.”
Trey also spoke about the long process of his journey from all of his stops along the way. He now seems very much at home in the Green and White.
Fort wasn’t the only newcomer making an impact on the opening week of Moneyball. Miami transfer Divine Ugochukwu comes to the Spartans as an important piece to back up starting point guard Jeremy Fears Jr.
He certainly knew what he signed up for when he picked Michigan State. Ugochukwu spoke candidly about the portal process on Tuesday night with the media at Holt High School, the site of the Moneyball Pro-Am.
So, I hit the portal because our coach from Miami retired,” Ugochukwu told Aidan Champion from Michigan State on SI. “So, I ended up in the portal; I was getting contacted by other schools early in the process, and then, a couple — I would say two to three weeks later, Michigan State contacted me, and then, we just built a connection, and then it just happened from there.”
