Shaka Smart... I didn't know he was from Wisconsin

[Mobot]

Interesting article from the Washington Post...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/vcus-shaka-smart-is-a-stand-up-type-of-guy/2011/03/26/AFRLkoeB_story.html

[Hards Alumni]

my step brother in law used to play backyard basketball with him.

[Warriors10]

2nd Team All-Conference in the Badger South his senior year.

[HouWarrior]

He was the all time assists leader, while later playing at Kenyon College, in Ohio,then he got his masters in social studies, and he coached under Oliver Purnell, at Clemson, and one year under Billy Donovan at Fla. His half brother is a Stanford endowed professor of writing, and published author, J.M. Tyree.

Shaka Smart  is known for carrying around and adding to his collection of inspirational quotes, currently filling 110 pages. From these, here are a few:

"The time will come when winter will ask what you were doing all summer."
 
"First, we make our habits. Then, our habits make us." – Charles Noble

"Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals." – James Naismith

"To a smile given, many smiles return." -- John Maxwell

"Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."  -- Voltaire