INDIANAPOLIS — Louisville senior guard Andre McGee jokes that his older brothers continually remind him that they taught him everything he knows. Colorado fans will remember the middle McGee brother — former Buffaloes point guard Antoine (2002-06). The oldest brother, Tony, played at Eastern Washington.
“Yeah, Antoine is always saying things like that,” Andre McGee said this week during preparations for Friday night’s Midwest Regional game against Arizona at Lucas Oil Stadium.
“But a lot of that is true. Antoine and Tony groomed me for all this, for the tough rigors, for the competition, with all those backyard wars in California.”
One thing that Antoine passed down to his kid brother was how to deal with adversity. Antoine earned a starting job with CU as a freshman but was only a spot starter the rest of his career. Andre made just 14 starts during his first two years at Louisville before becoming a regular during the past two seasons.
“Antoine would always call me and tell me to just keep working hard,” Andre said.
Andre was by far the most highly recruited of the brother trio as a national top-50 blue-chipper. He made an unofficial visit to Colorado during his junior year of high school and decided that Boulder was not for him.
“Colorado was a little too cold for me,” said Andre, who grew up in Southern California. “When I went there, that was the first time I’d ever seen snow.”
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