Orlando’s Riley Kugel eager to prove at UCF after missing out on Gators championship

American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson famously wrote that it’s not the destination, it’s the journey. Riley Kugel’s basketball journey has been a winding road that has taken him from the local courts at Dr. Phillips to a 4-star recruit at Florida and Mississippi State, before finally returning home to Central Florida at UCF. It wasn’t precisely where the 6-foot-5, 210-pound Kugel thought his career would be at this point. “When I entered college, my goal was to do two years and then I’m gone, but things changed,” Kugel recently told the Orlando Sentinel. “Everything happens for a reason. It allowed me to be in a position where it could help make me a leader.” Kugel signed as part of Todd...