The mitotic spindle formation in pathogenic budding yeast, Cryptococcus neoformans, depends on multitudes of intertwined interactions primarily between kinetochores, microtubules (MT), spindle pole bodies (SPBs) and various molecular motors. Prior to spindle formation microtubule organizing centers (MTOCs), embedded on the outer nuclear envelope (NE), coalesce into a single SPB.We propose a 'grow-and-catch' model, in which cytoplasmic MTs (cMTs) nucleated by MTOCs grow and catch each other, to facilitate MTOC clustering. Our quantitative modeling analysis supported by experiments, for the first time, identifies multiple redundant mechanisms mediated by cMT-cell cortex interactions via dynein and Bim1, act in synchrony for timely clustering of MTOCs. Implementing a similar stochastic model of 'grow-and-catch' kinetochores, here we demonstrate that pre-clustered kinetochores and highly biased MTs are a pre-requisite for timely capture of duplicated kinetochores. Further, in the absence of an error correction mechanism, the mitotic division culminates in a biased and asymmetric distribution of the nuclear mass. The model predicts that either a marginal delay in MT nucleation from the daughter SPB or an enhanced MT nucleation from the mother SPB can independently account for the asymmetry as observed in the experiment.