He’s got 6-foot-8-inch, 250-pound man-child Sagaba Konate from Bamako, Mali by way of Kennedy Catholic High in Hermitage, Pennsylvania, and he’s got 6-foot-10-inch, 240-pound, wingman Maciej Bender from Warsaw, Poland by way of Mountain Mission School in Grundy, Virginia.
According to Huggins, both are on schedule and coming along nicely.
Konate didn’t quite make those coveted top-100 lists all college basketball fans seem to be consumed with, although Huggins maintains he’s a top-100 talent.
Rivals.com rated Konate the nation’s 137th-best prospect, Scout.com had him rated as the 26th-best prep center in the country while ESPN.