He wasn’t an elite recruit - barely top 200 for what the rankings are worth, which is not much. Patrick Wessler, a 7-0/245 center from Charlotte, is intriguing. He’s should be good and will probably play a lot. A solid combo guard, it didn’t hurt that Hokies assistant Mike Jones coached him at DeMatha. He’s one of the highest ranked recruits VT has ever landed. Now the freshmen: Rodney Rice is a 6-4 guard out of DeMatha. He could be good enough to start.Īll three of those guys are going to help. He could be pretty good but we’ll have to wait and see. At 6-8, he can reportedly shoot (no big surprise, given Young’s proclivities). He was a Top 50 kid coming out of high school. John Camden spent one year at Memphis but was injured and only played one game. Poteat averaged 13.8 minutes at Rice, 7.7 ppg and 4.2 rpg.

Young first recruited him when he was at Wofford. Rice used him as a traditional big but Young might find more creative uses. Myljael Poteat, who comes over from Rice, is 6-9 and 260. He averaged 18.4 points and 8.5 rebounds per game last season for Wright State. Grant Basile is a 6-9/225 lb big guy from Wright State. Young reeled in three transfers from the portal. With such outstanding shooters, he can be a huge asset for the Hokies on offense but also on defense.

He’ll be called a glue guy but he’s more than that. He’s tremendously versatile and an outstanding passer. He hit 50.6 percent of his threes, so yet another solid shooter. He’s a 6-5 sophomore with outstanding athleticism who could be ready for a big leap forward. On a couple of occasions, Maddox really stunned us. He should be able to take over for Storm Murphy at point guard and since he’s been around the block, he should be better for the experience. He showed some real flashes as a freshman. Sean Pedulla is small at 6-1 but he’s an outstanding shooter: he hit 42.8 percent overall and 44 percent on threes. Hunter Catoor, Sean Pedulla, Darius Maddox and Justyn Mutts are back, and all four could certainly start.Ĭatoor is a 6-3 senior now and he’s amazingly efficient with the ball and ball movement and he’s a really good shooter, hitting 44.7 on threes. The last two aren’t major losses although N’Guessan was in the rotation but Aluma and Murphy are going to be hard to replace.īut fear not, Hokies fans: the cupboard is far from bare. David N’Guessan, a 6-9 sophomore, is off to Kansas State, while 6-10 junior John Ojiako split for George Mason. Erratic guard Nahiem Alleyne is done, and given his up-and-down play, not a huge loss. Point guard Storm Murphy took his last year at Virginia Tech after playing for Young at Wofford. Keve Aluma followed him from Wofford and was a really sound big man. He’s widely regarded as one of the best coaches in the game and his offense is just fun. In the last two seasons, VT has finished 15-7 and 23-13 and of course last season, they finished 23-13 and won the ACC Tournament, beating UNC and Duke along the way. In his first year, the Covid year, the Hokies finished 16-16. He’s done a fine job at Virginia Tech too. He knocked off UNC at UNC and at home and took Kentucky to the absolute wire in the 2019 NCAA tournament before losing 62-56. Everyone should be impressed with what Mike Young did at Wofford.

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