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2017-18 Hilltoppers to feature playmaking guards

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica – Nowhere was the difference between last year’s Western Kentucky team and this year’s more evident last week than in the way its guards play.

“Everybody’s a playmaker,” graduate student Darius Thompson told the Daily News last week during the Hilltoppers' preseason Costa Rica trip. “If you have the ball, there’s a chance you can get to the goal and score for yourself.”

WKU’s guards got plenty of chances to show what they could do during the three games the Tops played in San Jose.

Coach Rick Stansbury was forced to go small in his lineups, with forward Justin Johnson WKU’s only available post player for the final 11 quarters of the trip.