Former Kansas basketball walk-on and crowd favorite Terry Nooner decided to take a break from hoops after the 1999-2000 season. Inactivity took a toll on Noon-ball's waistline.
"I was fat a couple weeks ago. I was real fat. I was weighing like 220," said the 6-foot-1 former-Jayhawk, who checked in at 204 pounds for Sunday's KU Barnstorming game at Allen Fieldhouse.
"I started playing three weeks ago to get in shape for these games. Now I'm just nine pounds over my playing weight. I still have a ways to go."
Nooner hit four three pointers in the second half as a team of Kenny Gregory, Eric Chenowith, Nick Bradford, Jerod Haase and Nooner beat a team of KU students, 99-79, before about 500 fans at Allen Fieldhouse.
"They were real good a lot better than I thought they'd be," added Nooner, who spent this past year at KU working on his masters degree in sports administration.
Gregory, a senior, hit five threes and scored 30 points, while 7-foot senior Chenowith drifted outside to swish three three-pointers.
Nooner, however, was named the Jayhawks' Most Valuable Player.