Vanderbilt Chandler Bing knows that you have heard his name – but he swears that he was not appointed according to the delay Matthew Perry beloved Friends.
Of course, that did not prevent the jokes from pouring out after Bing announced its decision to attend the Nashville school, Tennessee, on Tuesday, April 29.
“My parents did not even think about the show”, he said to Tennessean In an interview published on Friday May 2. “My mother saw the show, but when they named me, I guess she didn’t look at her much, didn’t even think about it.”
Bing added that even if he had already heard many jokes related to friends in his life, he knows that there is more to come when he continues his basketball career.
“In fact, I didn’t watch the show,” he said. “But I never really had a problem with (jokes). Once people told me, I said to myself:” Ok, well, I know I’m going to get it a lot now. “”
The young basketball star also told the point of sale that he had chosen Vanderbilt because he wanted to compete at a high level in the dry. “Playing against the best guys … It was definitely a large part,” he said. “It was a fairly easy decision for me. Go up there, see the campus, the facilities, the city. It was definitely a place, a place where I can grow up and off the field. ”
Vanderbilt also houses a talented basketball female team who presents a second year student Mikayla blakes and rising junior Khamil Pierre. The pair has joined their teammates Sacha Washington And Justine Pissott to 3X basketball nationals from 2025 USA to Arizona Athletic Grounds in Mesa, Arizona, from May 2 to May 4.
The event presents 16 teams that hope to win a 3 × 3 championship and be assessed for a place in the national team of the United States Basketball 3 × 3. The additional teams presented during the event are Fairfield, Florida, James Madison, Oklahoma State, Richmond, South Carolina, South Dakota State, Stephen F. Austin and TCU.
Blakes, Pierre and Pissott have all played a major role by conducting the women’s basketball team in Vanderbilt in their second season of 20 consecutive victories and an appearance at the March Madness tournament this year.
Blakes collected an average of 23.3 points per game during the 2024-25 season and was appointed national recruit of the year USBWA Tamika Catchings and recruit of the year of the dry; Pierre collected an average of 20.4 points per game and was appointed to the honorable mention team All-American of WBCA.
