Mykhailiuk to arrive at KU in September, Self says Sunday at Ice Bucket Challenge

By J-W Staff Report     Aug 24, 2014

All of Kansas University’s basketball players, except for Ukraine freshman Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk, are on campus for start of first-semester classes, and participated in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, on Sunday outside Allen Fieldhouse.

KU coach Bill Self expects a forthcoming announcement that the 6-foot-8 Mykhailiuk will be a member of Ukraine’s FIBA World Cup team, thus won’t be on campus until the conclusion of that tournament, which runs Aug. 30-Sept 14 in Spain. Ukraine could be eliminated earlier than that.

Mykhailiuk’s name is on Ukraine’s roster at the FIBA Website.

“We anticipate him making the team and being tied up the next couple weeks,” Self said after the Challenge in which his players had ice water poured over their heads as a group.

Asked if that was “good or bad,” Self said: “I think it’s good, more good than bad. It’s an unbelievable honor for him, for a guy that young, who just turned 17 to have a chance to compete against the elite players of the world I think it’s awesome.

“It’s a good thing but it will put him behind. There’s no question when he gets here he’ll be a couple weeks behind everybody else. Since he wasn’t here this summer he’s going to have some catching up to do but he’s also played more ball than anybody this summer, too. It’s been nonstop for him since June,” Self added.

More on KU hoops and the Ice Bucket challenge in Monday’s Journal-World and on KUSports.com.

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