2021-2022 Player Preview: Nolan Hickman

Photo by Brian Rothmuller/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesThe Gonzaga Bulldogs ended last year at heartbreak, but with a stable of players that made fans believe they’d be right back to fight for a championship starting in October. That talent only multiplied in the following weeks, when Rasir Bolton announced in transfer, and then four-star recruit Nolan Hickman announced he de-committed from Kentucky and chose Gonzaga as his future home.

Hickman may be as under the radar as it gets for a Top 30 recruit entering his freshman season, largely because of the depth of the Zags backcourt and his fellow freshman being Chet Holmgren (ranked 1st), Hunter Sallis (20th) and late rankings-riser Kaden…