Former Kentucky Castoff Charles Matthews Is All About Now as Michigan’s Main Man

SAN ANTONIO — It’s Friday afternoon, two days after Charles Matthews and the Michigan Wolverines landed here to prepare for the Final Four and one day before Michigan will beat Loyola of Chicago to reach Monday night’s national title game against Villanova in the 2018 NCAA men’s tournament. Right now, Matthews ambles into a media session and settles into a seat behind a raised table.cheap nfl nike jerseys china

Like so many others with big basketball dreams, he grew up imagining not only sinking buzzer-beaters but also recounting his heroics in interviews. But as he faces the reporters and hears the first question about Kentucky, he can’t help but let out a sigh. cheap nike nfl jersey      

“I spoke with my media department and my coaching staff,” he responded politely, “and I’m not answering any more questions about the Kentucky transfer process. It’s so far removed now. I’ve been at Michigan two years now. If it’s not about Michigan or the Final Four, cheap nike nfl jerseys wholesale I don’t really want to talk about it.”

It’s easy to understand his frustration. Yes, Matthews started his college career at Kentucky. And yes, at one point, he considered himself a potential one-and-done player. But he left Lexington after nine months, and he’s been with Michigan for almost two years. One of the biggest lessons he’s learned is not to worry about the past and not to obsess over the future. Instead, he focuses with laser-like precision on the present.

Working with Greg Harden—the University of Michigan associate athletic director and life cheap nfl nike jersey coach who has helped mold the minds of Tom Brady, Desmond Howard, Michael Phelps and many others—Matthews has learned to become a man of the moment. And this is his moment with Michigan.

In the most important month on the college basketball calendar, cheap nfl jerseys china nike Matthews has been the Wolverines’ most consistently stellar two-way star. He was the West Regional’s Most Outstanding Player, and he’s averaging 16.6 points per game in his team’s tournament run. “He changed his color blue,” assistant coach Saddi Washington said. “He’s a maize man now.”

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