You’ve heard more about Jesse Wade than most recruits for quite some time, specifically, because Wade is a Mormon and got his mission out of the way before joining Gonzaga.
You read that right. The Zags were able to pluck a good basketball player out of Utah, who is Mormon, right from under the noses of BYU and the University of Utah. Since that coup happened, the legend of Wade has been consistently building, and it reached its peak in mid July with this tweet:
Another Kevin Pangos? That is some incredibly lofty praise coming from the ESPN expert.