Nova Notebook: Samb’s Journey Has Delivered Him to Villanova

In the latest edition of our Nova Notebook introduction series, we get to know transfer forward Abdou Samb . When he first arrived in the United States from Senegal at age 11, Abdou Samb was not contemplating a future that included basketball. “I didn’t know what basketball was when I got to America,” says the forward, who signed with the Wildcats this summer after earlier stops at Rhode Island, IUPUI and most recently, Towson University. Come to find out, though, that his mother had played the sport overseas. He picked up a ball not long after moving to Maryland and…