INDIANAPOLIS — Michigan players Morez Johnson Jr. and Nimari Burnett didn’t know each other back in Chicago.
“Nah, he’s too old,” Johnson said.
“When I first met him, he told me he was 19 years old and I was like, ‘This is a grown man in a 19-year-old body,’ ” Burnett, 24, recalled with a laugh.
Johnson, now 20, went to St. Rita for three years and finished up at Thornton before heading to Illinois for what turned out to be just one season. Burnett won a Class 3A title as a freshman at Morgan Park, where he played with Ayo Dosunmu before transferring to a prep school in California.
Both are starters on a 36-win Wolverines powerhouse that will face UConn for…
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