Recruiting success?

Reedus, Gilmore, Corcoran, Tut, Bankston, Hadzic. Six players at four different positions (according to Verbal Commits). Two from juco, four from high school. We will lose six seniors, so those presumably are all the signees we will have, unless there are late casualties.

Only Burns, Black, Jones and Marcus will have any appreciable amount of experience from this season. Then throw in Watkins. That is probably not an awful starting lineup. We haven't seen Watkins at point, but he was good enough to attract money conference schools and will have had a year to learn our system. Burns is shooting pretty well this year. Black continues to improve, and I still think he can be a dominant SBC big man by the time he leaves Little Rock. Marcus has not played a lot,  but he is shooting 60% overall. Jones' numbers are not very good, but he remains an imposing physical talent. Plug the holes with any of the six  newcomers who pan out, and we might have a team that can make a little noise next season. How much remains to be seen.

One thing about it: Wes signed all six of his players in the early season. He got who he wanted. IF his evaluation was good, then that bodes well for the future - maybe not next season, but at some point down the road.