There’s more than one Milwaukee basketball player with Greek ties.

Marquette junior guard Stevie Mitchell is originally from Reading, Pennsylvania, but Mitchell’s maternal great grandmother grew up in Greece.

“My great grandmother came here on a boat,” said Mitchell, who averages 24 minutes a game for Marquette. “And the rest is kind of history.”

While Mitchell is focused on the Marquette season right now, he could have an opportunity, with teammate David Joplin, to travel to Greece for the first time, later this spring.

Marquette alum Steve Bertrand, who works for WGN Radio in Chicago, has a travel business as well, and he has organized a nine-day bus tour of Greece and the islands of Crete, Mykonos and Santorini.

If there are enough travelers to sign up for the all-inclusive trip (May 12-22, $6,000) Mitchell and Joplin will get to go as part of an NIL deal with Bertrand.

For Mitchell, who has never met the Milwaukee Bucks' famous Greek Freak Giannis Antetokounmpo, or his brother, Thanasis, it would be an opportunity to connect his two worlds, from the American life he grew up with, to his great grandmother’s native country.

“I grew up in a Greek Orthodox Church because of my great grandmother,” said Mitchell.

Mitchell said while attending Saints Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church, he would hear several parishioners talk about Greece.

“I'm really close with a lot of people there at that church because I went there my whole life,” said Mitchell. “So I'm pretty sure at least a few of them will want to go on the trip. So I'm looking forward to going.

“I think the trip would be really cool. A lot of people dream about going there and a lot of people from my church have been. I just heard how great it was. To go back to where my family's from, learning about the place in general and just like seeing like historic sites, places - will be really cool, trying new food.”

For information on the trip, visit: http://stevebertrandtravel.com/marquette-greece-adventure/

This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Marquette's Stevie Mitchell hopes to return to his Greek roots