'Unknown' guard goes global in China

I cover college basketball for a living, and until Monday night, I had never heard of Saint Louis guard Jake Barnett. There are good reasons for this. As a sophomore, Barnett was the 10th man in the SLU rotation last season. He scored all of 20 points in 17 appearances in 2012. He was, essentially, a benchwarmer. Just don’t tell the basketball fans in China. According to this fun little story by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Tom Timmerman, Barnett spent three weeks on a basketball goodwill tour through China, playing for a team called the USA Eagles (USA!

Source: http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/post/_/id/61184/want-to-be-a-hoops-god-go-to-china

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