For three seasons, Rick Stansbury felt he was having to spend his summer and preseason practices reteaching everything because of roster turnover.
The Hilltoppers return four core players between redshirt senior Jared Savage, juniors Taveion Hollingsworth and Josh Anderson and star sophomore center Charles Bassey. That quartet combined last year for 75.2 percent of WKU’s scoring, 64.1 percent of rebounding and 48.4 percent of its assists.
Savage and Bassey were starters playing their first respective seasons in Hilltopper uniforms while Anderson and Hollingsworth have played significantly since they were freshmen. Hollingsworth, Savage and Bassey started all 34 games last year and averaged at least 31 minutes per game.