When Pat Spencer (SPS ’20) first laced up his shoes in Welsh-Ryan Arena in 2019, he was a grad student who hadn’t played a lick of college basketball. The current Golden State Warriors guard, who’s in the midst of a breakout season, was a college lacrosse star who some still consider the greatest of all-time in the sport.  He was fresh off a historic season at Loyola University Maryland, where he’d won the Tewaaraton Award, the highest award in lacrosse, and was selected first overall in the inaugural 2019 Premier Lacrosse League Draft. But he turned it down. From 2016 to 2019, he’d given his all to the Greyhounds. He brought them to the NCAA semifinals his freshman year and to two quarterfinals in the next three years. Upon getting drafted, he decided it was time for his story to change. Spencer set his sights on basketball, and Northwestern took a chance on him. Since then, he has grinded his way into the NBA, landing his first standard contract Feb. 7.  — Story by Dov Weinstein ...