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Using 247's composite rankings.....

Elijah Landrum - committed 9/13/16
PG - 3-star (.8792)
National rank - 210
Other offers - UH, Texas Tech, Tulsa, VCU

Everett Ray - committed 9/22/16
PF - 3-star (.9068)
National rank - 157
Other offers - Arkansas, TCU, Boise, UH, Tulsa, Yale, Brown, Princeton

Ethan Chargois - committed 9/30/16
PF - 3-star (.8758)
National rank - 224
Other offers: UH, Okie St, Colorado, K-State, OU, Tulsa

William Douglas - committed 10/7/16
PG/SG - 4-star (.9319)
National rank - 115
Other offers - Ole Miss, Memphis, Michigan, Alabama, TCU, Florida St, Oregon

http://smu.247sports.com/Season/2017-Basketball/Commits

Very solid class. Really nice to see basically no drop off from LB. Would love to see a true center get added to this mix - we feel light inside.

#22 ranked class in the nation.....

http://smu.247sports.com/Season/2017-Basketball/Commits

gostangs wrote:Very solid class. Really nice to see basically no drop off from LB. Would love to see a true center get added to this mix - we feel light inside.

How are we light? Next year we have 4 bigs in semi, fro, Chargois and Ray.

'17-'18 scholarship roster (assuming the '17 class is full)

Guards: Shake Milton*** | DaShawn McDowell | Tom Wilson | Elijah Landrum
Wings: Jimmy Whitt | Ben Emelogu | Jarrey Foster | William Douglas
Bigs : Semi Ojeleye | Harry Froling | Everett Ray | Ethan Chargois

That's nice. Depth everywhere.

*** given Milton stays for his junior season

Quality depth. No project DITR's.

You definitely trump my knowledge on this - but from what i have seen all four of those guys look like they prefer playing out from the basket. Fro in particular is Dirk pt 2. We need some bangers - one in each of the next 2 classes.

gostangs wrote:You definitely trump my knowledge on this - but from what i have seen all four of those guys look like they prefer playing out from the basket. Fro in particular is Dirk pt 2. We need some bangers - one in each of the next 2 classes.

Fro is a BIG fellow and hopefully replacing baby fat with muscle.

Ray and Chargois are more bull than finesse and probably have both some growth and the benefits of serious strength training ahead of them. Hopefully that stops some penetration.

Semi (like Ben Moore) will probably have some spectacular rejections from the help side....for when penetration happens.

Mutumbo types don't grow on trees...it would be nice to have though.

Obviously everyone wants a dominant 7 footer and there are not enough to go around. Problem is when three of our four post guys are 6-7, that is just not enough height. This will be particularly true if we get to the tourny and we have tough rebounding matchups we can't answer.

gostangs wrote:Obviously everyone wants a dominant 7 footer and there are not enough to go around. Problem is when three of our four post guys are 6-7, that is just not enough height. This will be particularly true if we get to the tourny and we have tough rebounding matchups we can't answer.

Let's just get there first. Then it is entirely possible we run into a huge front line. It's a 64 team event and anything is possible. But superior guard play and senior leadership win NCAA tourneys. I'd love a solid big as
well. We're set everywhere else now. Samson Froling in 18.

sadderbudweiser wrote:

gostangs wrote:Obviously everyone wants a dominant 7 footer and there are not enough to go around. Problem is when three of our four post guys are 6-7, that is just not enough height. This will be particularly true if we get to the tourny and we have tough rebounding matchups we can't answer.

Let's just get there first. Then it is entirely possible we run into a huge front line. It's a 64 team event and anything is possible. But superior guard play and senior leadership win NCAA tourneys. I'd love a solid big as
well. We're set everywhere else now. Samson Froling in 18.

#SamFroin18

stangsup4 wrote:'17-'18 scholarship roster (assuming the '17 class is full)

Guards: Shake Milton*** | DaShawn McDowell | Tom Wilson | Elijah Landrum
Wings: Jimmy Whitt | Ben Emelogu | Jarrey Foster | William Douglas
Bigs : Semi Ojeleye | Harry Froling | Everett Ray | Ethan Chargois

That's nice. Depth everywhere.

*** given Milton stays for his junior season

....it is possible Semi could go as well. Just sayin.

If we have the kind of year where both Shake and Semi are able to declare early for the draft we will have made a lot of noise.

White Helmet wrote:If we have the kind of year where both Shake and Semi are able to declare early for the draft we will have made a lot of noise.

if we win NC only both can declare for Draft

If you add Whitt into this class we're adding five really solid players for 2017-18