Mark Patton: Little Has Gone a Long Way to Become UCSB’s Latest International Basketball Star

Mark Patton: Little Has Gone a Long Way to Become UCSB’s Latest International Basketball Star

Miro Little felt like he had a lump of coal in his stocking last Christmas. Every step came with a stab of pain as a foot injury kept UC Santa Barbara’s newest star point guard sidelined for a month of basketball games. And still nothing could alter Little’s belief that he’d reached the sunny side of the street after a very circuitous, four-year odyssey from Finland to the United States’ Pacific Coast. “I wake up to the sun, under the palm trees…