Highlights from Mahershala Ali’s college basketball career went viral after he won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar on Sunday. Ali was a little-used guard at St. Mary’s in California, when he was known as Hershal Gilmore. He won his Oscar for his turn as a trailblazing pianist in Green Book. Ali’s character also solved a murder and missing-person case in Sunday’s True Detective season finale. (Bleacher Report)
Before Mahershala Ali was an Academy Award-winning actor, he was known as Hershal Gilmore, a 6-foot-4 guard for @saintmaryshoops. #Oscars2019 pic.twitter.com/InwGLWHG8h
— NCAA (@NCAA) February 24, 2019
