Big feet a big plus for OU's Steven Pledger

 
By DAVID UBBEN, Staff Writer
Published: December 17, 2009

NORMAN — Oklahoma basketball coach Jeff Capel saw a future in Steven Pledger ’s oversized feet. Capel saw it even though Pledger was a little overweight and a little slow.

Pledger was still just a ninth-grader in Chesapeake , Va., not on the list of upperclassmen Capel was recruiting for Virginia Commonwealth .

But once Capel saw how well that overweight, undersized freshman could shoot, he...


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