Two ways to go about it.
1 - star hunt like the one and done factories
2 - get old with players that fit your system like the two teams that played in last years title game. That's the way painter is going.
We were 5 seconds from the final 4 last year with our highest ranked recruit being Nojel in the 60s in his class. The play that saved Virginia against Purdue was created by an unranked player in Salt tipping the ball back to a 3* outside the top 150 pg in Clark who passed it up to another player in Diakite who wasn't highly ranked.
Purdue goes to the elite 8 2 years ago if Haas didn't get hurt. Texas tech didn't really have to pay much attention to Haarms down low and could focus on the shooters. Even with that disadvantage Carsen still went off for 30. If you don't think one of the biggest mismatches in college basketball in Haas changes the way that game goes then idk what to tell you. He would've demanded a lot of attention down low freeing up Mathias who only attempted 1 three that game, and he would've drawn a good bit of fouls like he normally did which would've been huge against a that Texas tech team who didn't have a deep frontcourt.
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