Matt Stainbrook Drives Strangers Around, and Xavier Onward

nytimes.com - LOS ANGELES — Somewhere in suburban Cincinnati lives a woman who lost her job a few months ago and whose company, because she had car-pooled that day, arranged for her ride home. She was driven by Xavier’s leading scorer and rebounder, a 6-foot-10, 270-pound Uber driver named Matt Stainbrook.

As Stainbrook remembers it, she tearfully held a box of her office belongings. He pretended that he did not know the circumstances.

“That was my good idea,” he said Wednesday. “My bad idea was when she got in, I said, ‘How’s your day going?’ Because that’s the normal thing to say.”