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The Hog Pod with Bo Mattingly

91. Connor Vanover: A Tall Tale

The Hog Pod with Bo Mattingly

Sport & Story

Sports

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The first thing you notice about Connor Vanover is the first thing everyone notices about Connor Vanover: He's tall. Really tall. But there's more to Vanover than just his height—he's got serious game, too. It's unusual, but it works: He's a 7'3" big man who shoots it like a guard, at a career rate of nearly 40 percent from deep. And that's not the only usual thing about Vanover's journey, which took a roundabout path to Arkansas. After a stop at Findlay Prep in Las Vegas, Vanover ended up at Cal. And just as things were starting to come together late in his freshman season, his coach got fired. Enter Eric Musselman and his staff, who convinced him to play for his home-state team, and follow in the footsteps of his mom—who holds the single-game blocks record for the Razorback women's basketball team. Vanover has his sights set high. And at 7-foot-3, he might be close enough to reach them.

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0:00.0

People are going to stare and it's not a bad thing people are just really intrigued and you know a lot of people like haven't seen anything like me before.

0:09.5

I've looked it up. I'm in like the top 0.001 percent or even less of people in the world for

0:16.3

my height and so for somebody who's just a normal person going down the street and

0:21.6

they see somebody like me like that's a once in a lifetime

0:25.4

chance of seeing me sometimes they might ever come across someone like me ever

0:29.6

again. Welcome into the Hog Pot. I'm Bo Mattingly and this episode is made possible by our

0:45.0

friends at Core Brewing Company. First Security Bank, Serras and Resort and

0:49.8

Lindsay Golf. We got to get a picture of me standing next to you because I'm so short.

0:54.4

All right. Everybody's short to you though, right? Pretty much.

0:59.6

That is weird. The first thing that everybody notices about Connor Vanover is he is tall, really tall.

1:09.0

So tall you can't help but notice.

1:12.0

They're like, hey, how tall are you?

1:14.0

You know, sometimes I try to be funny with it,

1:16.2

give them crazy answers, so I told them, you know, six nine.

1:19.6

Like, oh, wow, thank you.

1:21.0

They actually believe it, too.

1:22.4

And while Van Over has a sense of humor about his size, he's also got serious game.

1:27.6

Razorbacks, look to attack quickly on the other end. Vanover from the right side drains a three.

1:33.4

It's unusual, but at 7 foot 3,

1:35.8

Vanover is known as much for his shot

1:38.2

as he is his size.

1:39.4

And that's not the only unusual thing about his journey, which included a path out west and a freshman year at Cal

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