Lawrence

Bryson Tiller of Atlanta’s Overtime Elite youth basketball program left Georgia for Lawrence on Jan. 6, hoping to practice with the Kansas Jayhawks second semester of the 2024-25 school year and, in effect, gain a head start on the 2025-26 campaign.

Unfortunately, a nagging left ankle injury kept the 6-foot-10, 240-pound, 19-year-old Tiller on the sidelines, ultimately resulting in surgery to repair a bone fracture the first week of March.

“The last time I played competitive 5-on-5 basketball was March 17 (2024) in our last game of the OTE Finals,” said Tiller. He scored 14 points with six rebounds and two blocks in 28 minutes in his City Reapers OTE 71-68 victory over RWE OTE in the league’s title game.

With Tiller on board, his OTE team actually won the league crown two

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