The best thing about sophomores is that they eventually become juniors.
If you’re old enough to remember that ancient piece of basketball wisdom, then you’re old enough to remember a time when freshmen played on freshmen teams and even the best juniors became even better seniors.
In other words, a long time ago.
In today’s world maybe we can modify that to the best thing about freshmen is that they eventually become sophomores.
That is unless they become pros.
In a seven-year period between the high-school class of 2013 and the high-school class of 2019 Duke recruited an astonishing 21 players ranked in the consensus top-25 by RSCI - the Recruiting Services Consensus Index.