Or Ashkenazi finished his freshman year at Lipscomb, playing basketball, but it looked a little different than most. Ashkenazi broke the typical freshman athlete mold, starting college at 22 years old after playing three years of pro basketball overseas.  Most athletes tend to go to college first, and then go pro, so someone doing it the other way around brings up two prevalent questions: first, why? And second, how?   Coming to the United States from Eilat, Israel, Ashkenazi chose Lipscomb University, out of nearly 6,000 U.S. universities and colleges. Yet he came to the States after three years of professional basketball with Hapoel Eilat, a First Division Israeli pro…