Less than two months before he signed with the Auburn Tigers in the fall of 2014, Bryce Brown made his college choice.
The guard, ranked outside the top 300 of the 247Sports.com composite rankings for the Class of 2015, had just finished official visits with the FIU Panthers and Georgia Southern Eagles, but decided he wanted to go play for the Charlotte 49ers in Conference USA.
“I didn’t like him when he first saw him, I loved him,” coach Bruce Pearl said Monday on a teleconference ahead of the Final Four, “but I couldn’t offer Bryce a scholarship that I’d promised to somebody else.