“He was kind of short and he was like fat, kind of, but he could play,” Michigan’s Trey Burke remembers of the first time he saw Jared Sullinger. “He had good footwork and things like that. No one could stop him down low because even though he was out of shape he had good footwork and he could finish around the rim.”

The two battled in everything. Sullinger said that no matter who won, it usually ended in a fight because they were so competitive.

But they were best friends and…….