For all the handwringing as of late — in this section included — about Tech’s backcourt woes, not enough has been said about the fear held by many at the end of last season: that the loss of Ben Lammers to graduation would doom the Jackets’ frontcourt for at least the 2018-19 campaign.
Lammers, a San Antonio, Tex. native, spent four years at Tech and improved from an interesting but not particularly capable bench player to an all-conference caliber defender. His peak was his junior year, his first under the tutelage of new head coach Josh Pastner. Lammers led the conference with an eye-popping 3.