HBCU President Shows Up Grad Student’s Basketball Skills in Viral Video

A graduate student from Virginia State University was showing off his basketball skills when an unexpected opponent stole the show.

What We Know:

  • According to Blavity, 24-Year-Old Afolabi Oyeneyin, a former Virginia State basketball player, was on-campus filming one-on-one basketball games with friends. Things were going great for Oyeneyin until university president Dr. Makola Abdullah showed up.
  • With over 5 million views, the now-viral video shows Dr. Abdullah walking down a flight of stairs in a crisp suit. Oyeneyin challenges him to a game, and the president’s jacket comes off. Before you know it, Dr. Abdullah bounces the basketball off of Oyeneyin’s head before setting him up for an ankle-breaking cross-up. The crowd of spectators goes wild!
  • Oyeneyin posted the video on Twitter last Tuesday, writing, “I was walking around Virginia State & the President of the school just embarrassed me. I’m not gonna lie,” he continued,  “it took a lot for me to post this. He definitely got me tho.”

https://twitter.com/ifyouwereafo/status/1371869426182717441

  • In the end, Oyeneyin proved to be a good sport about the match, posing for a friendly photo with his opponent. “You already know it’s all love. I can’t wait until everybody is back on campus,” Abdullah captioned the picture of him and Oyeneyin on Twitter.

The two are scheduled to have a one-on-one rematch soon.

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