
The road from Andre Drummond’s hometown to the state university is only 40 miles. His journey to Storrs is a different story. His college recruitment seemed like it took 40 years. The most coveted basketball prospect in America belongs to UConn now. A quarter-century ago, basketball experts from Kentucky to North Carolina, snarky observers from New York to L.A., would have joked Drummond went from Middletown to the Middle of Nowhere.