With no players left from last season’s group picture, Baylor

WACO, Texas (AP)– Baylor coach Scott Drew had a lot of players for the very first practice of the summer season Wednesday, about two months after the group photo from last season was commonly distributed on social media with an X marked over all 14 of those players given that none was going back to the Bears.Only 4 of

those players exhausted their college eligibility. 9 others left in the transfer website and one-and-done guard VJ Edgecombe could become Baylor’s highest choice ever in the NBA draft later this month.Advertisement “Guys you didn’t wish to lose and were valuable, we haven’t had numerous that we have actually lost. Whenever you do, that just tears at a coach, since you seem like you didn’t do your task,” Drew stated this week.” With the portal, I believe we have actually all gotten utilized to a lot more turnover in a rush, and not to take things always personal.” The Bears reconstructed their roster with eight transfers and a four-player finalizing class with a luxury prospect and the child of a NBA champion. Among the 14 players at the very first practice was Cameron Carr, the former Tennessee guard who moved to Baylor in the middle of last season long after that group image session.One of the previous Bears was guard Robert Wright, who averaged 11.5 points and 4.2 helps a game as a freshman last season and had reportedly consented to a lucrative NIL deal to stay before transferring to BYU for an even bigger bundle.”You understand people are going to leave. Rob, obviously, was someone we had an agreement with.

When you make an agreement, you think you’re done, “Drew said, without entering any specifics. “Clearly that was a surprise to us, however again, the staff did an excellent job of creating a roster and group. That becomes part of, hopefully, your house settlement, where you get to a point where you know who’s on your team and when they’re locked in, they’re locked in. “Ad The eight incoming transfers have more than 500 of games played combined, consisting of guards Dan Skillings, who played 100 games over three years for Cincinnati, and JJ White, who started 75 of 99 games at Omaha over the exact same period. Juslin Bodo is a 7-foot post from Cameroon, started all 71 of his games for NCAA Competition team Peak the past 2 seasons. Obi Agbim, a 6-3 guard, was the Mountain West newcomer of the year after averaging 17.6 points and 3.4 helps in 29 games last season for Wyoming.Five-star prospect Tounde Yessoufou, a small forward from St. Joseph High School in California, leads the finalizing class that also consists of Andre Iguodala II, whose

daddy was a four-time champ over 19 NBA seasons with four groups; Italian forward Maikcol Perez and big guy Might Soyoye.Baylor, Gonzaga and Houston are the only groups to win at least one game in each of the previous 6 NCAA Tournaments, though the Bears have lost in the second round the past 4 years considering that their championship game in 2021

. Drew and his personnel will get an early take a look at the new squad with Baylor representing the United States at the World University Games next month in Germany.Advertisement”Any year you get a foreign tour, it’s huge.

… Given that we’re returning 0.0 (percent of our )scoring, this provide us all a chance,”Drew stated.”The games will be good for those that can play in it.

However the practices will be terrific for everyone. And after that, the something everybody leaves out is you do these team-bonding activities. There’s nothing much better than being overseas, that actually brings you together a lot more than when you have all the interruptions you perform in the United States.”___ AP college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/college-basketball