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Better Know a Freshman: Villanova Wildcats forward Dylan Painter

The Hershey, PA native has come a long way as he gets ready to join the defending National Champions.

While maybe the most unassuming new member of the VIllanova Wildcats, incoming freshman power forward Dylan Painter may have the highest upside of the three.

Painter is charted as a 3-star recruit and ranked as the number 140 recruit in the country according to 247Sports composite rankings. The 6’10, 230-pound big man out of Hershey, Pennsylvania has done a remarkable job of transforming both his game and his body in the couple of years. Since joining Team Final out of Philadelphia on the AAU circuit, he has added an aggressiveness and ferocity to his game that was lacking at the beginning of his high school career.