We continue our recruit and return series with the SMU Mustangs, whose season ended Friday with a loss to USC in the East Region. A look at what the 2017-18 season could hold:
Possible 2017-18 starting five
G: Jimmy Whitt (Arkansas transfer)
G: Ben Emelogu
Who is lost: SMU played with seven scholarship players for much of the season, once Australian products Harry Froling and Tom Wilson transferred. Two of those seven are gone: veteran starters Sterling Brown and Ben Moore. Brown has steadily improved in each of his four seasons, taking on a bigger offensive role every year in addition to being a versatile defender who could make shots from the perimeter. Moore was essentially the team’s only…
