'Some days you’d be getting back from an away game at three in the morning' - CJ Fulton on the American Dream

GREEN SHOOT: Ireland international CJ Fulton. Pic: Eóin Noonan/Sportsfile

BIG fish boss the joint in small ponds but holding their own in the shark-infested expanse of US college basketball is never a given, even for someone as talented and dedicated as CJ Fulton. 

Tonight marks his return to the Irish singlet since he took up a scholarship in Lafayette College, Pennsylvania last year and his availability, in this Summer window, for two must-win games in the FIBA 2025 Eurobasket pre-qualifiers, couldn’t be more timely.