When Luke Wilson steps on the floor wearing Syracuse across his chest in November, he won’t be the first big man in recent years who has made the small town of Boone, North Carolina proud. He’ll simply be the latest. The ACC patch that will be on his uniform is the same that Tre’Von Spillers wore. Justin Abson’s patch read SEC. CJ Huntley’s jersey has Jerry West’s silhouette on it.
App State head coach Dustin Kerns has turned his Sun Belt program into a big man factory, and Wilson is next on the assembly line.
“We play through our bigs,” Kerns told Nunes Magician. “They’re very involved in our offense, they’re connectors defensively. They become rim protectors and a big part of our offense in a two-big system. I think very few people play two bigs together and our guys are interchangeable so they’re not boxed into a number.”…