Kris Bankston had two primary pitches: A two-seam fastball and curveball.
Before his sophomore year of high school, basketball was a foreign adventure for the man with one of the country's best field goal percentages this season.
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Bankston, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock's 6-8 homegrown dunking machine from DeWitt, stood at 5-9 until his sophomore year at Fair High School. A growth spurt of 9 inches between his freshman and sophomore prep years shifted his focus toward his future.