BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Khristian Lander gambled on himself.
What's wrong with being confident?
This is an era were youth waits for no one. Advancements in basketball training and skills development combined with years of high-level travel ball competition leaves elite high school players major-impact ready from the moment they reach college campuses.
In Lander's case, he arrived without a high school senior season, skipping it to jump from the 2021 to the 2020 class and join the Hoosiers in July. The 5-star prospect from Evansville Reitz High School put up the dazzling numbers you'd expect (1,314 points in three seasons, averages of 23.