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Many of the players from UConn's 2023 championship team - Andre Jackson Jr., Donovan Clingan, Alex Karaban, Tristen Newton - spent two hours helping 90 campers ages 6-13 with drills, a question-and-answer session, and autographs. UConn basketball players' stature in the community was evident on Sunday, at the Bleeding Blue for Good Basketball ProCamp inside the Blasius Rec Center. He's a terrific player, he's a terrific student, which is big." I think Jaylin will be able to handle that. You're a role model, even at 18, 19 years old. But also with that comes a huge responsibility to know that, like (Sunday), you are looked up to. But when you're an athlete and people see what you've done on the court, you're a little immune to the race relations and the diversity, as a UConn player. The diversity part of it is getting much better. "I've talked with his mom and his grandmother a lot, just asking about what the climate's like, what the fans are like. "We've talked a lot since his trip here," Marshall added. It's certainly worked out well for Marshall, who will continue as a FOX college basketball broadcaster next winter. I think that may be part of what people think about now: not just what's happening the next four years, but the rest of your life." "When you talk to the coaching staff and my aunt Cheryl, his grandmother, they knew they could bring a kid from 3,000 miles away to have some success and make a life here. But maybe in some ways it did," Marshall noted. Not that that was a major reason to convince Stewart to commit to UConn last fall. Simmons also helps coach Stewart at Garfield High, along with former NBA star Brandon Roy. His uncle, Tre Simmons, who starred for two years at the University of Washington before embarking on a long, successful career overseas, is also Marshall's first cousin. Stewart's mother, Sherrill Jones, is Marshall's cousin.

He is also Donny Marshall's second cousin. He's a versatile player who can shoot, distribute and is deceptively athletic. Jaylin Stewart, the 6-foot-6 forward out of Seattle's Garfield High, could be the most underrated of UConn's incoming fantastic five freshman class. In about a month or so, another highly-touted player from Seattle will be making the 3,000-mile trek to begin what many believe will be a terrific career at UConn. I couldn't believe he was right about this one." You'll never leave the place.' Some 30 years later, he was right. "Jim Calhoun told us, 'You'll stay here, just watch. "We couldn't wait to leave and go back to the West Coast," Marshall recalled. Marshall remembers his first visit to UConn along with Los Angeles product Kevin Ollie.