Mareik Isom

Mareik is one of the more intriguing players we have had come to campus lately. Because he was in the same incoming class as Josh Hagins and he redshirted a year and was very slow starting last season, he tended to be sort of an asterisk on the roster. However, because the staff kept playing him and kept telling him to go ahead and shoot, even though he was not making anything, you got the idea that the staff knew something we did not, and that good things were on the way.

Then - finally - Mareik broke out in the last six games last season and we got to see what the coaches had been seeing in practice, and a collective sigh of relief went out from Trojanland. What makes Mareik so special is not that he is another good shooter, but that he is a shooter with size. He is listed at 6-7 and rumors are flying that he is now actually 6-9.

One of the biggest factors as to whether this team will be really good instead of pretty good this season will be whether or not Mareik continues to improve. Having a dead-eye shooter his size is an advantage even Georgia State may not have.