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The Big 12 is the family business for many players here this week

 
By Berry Tramel | Published: March 11, 2009    Comment on this article Leave a comment

Basketball, courtesy of the Big 12 Championship, is center stage downtown this week. Twenty-two games spread over five days, within a span of 100 hours.

photo - University of Kansas college basketball guard Brady Morningstar and his father Roger Morningstar. PHOTO PROVIDED BY STEVE PUPPE PHOTOGRAPHY
University of Kansas college basketball guard Brady Morningstar and his father Roger Morningstar. PHOTO PROVIDED BY STEVE PUPPE PHOTOGRAPHY

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Slack time will be scarce. But if you’re still looking for action between hoops in the arenas and Bricktown breaks at Chelino’s or Earl’s Rib Palace, try this.

Crash a family reunion.

Family assemblies will be in abundance around the league that is full of family ties.

And not just the well-known Griffin brothers and Paris sisters of OU, or Texas’ Nash twins (Kathleen and Kristen) and Kansas’ Morris twins (Markieff and Marcus).

But sons and daughters of former athletes at Big 12 schools, and cousins and uncles and sisters, crossing a variety of sports and a variety of schools.

Some of the stories are like Kansas’ Brady Morningstar, the son of Roger Morningstar, who started on KU’s 1974 Final Four team.

Brady grew up in Lawrence, Kan., hearing that he wouldn’t be good enough to follow in his dad’s tracks. But here is Brady, a redshirt sophomore who has started 30 games for the Big 12 champ Jayhawks.

"I’m where I want to be,” Morningstar said.

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