STATESBORO – For those who follow the Georgia Southern men's basketball program closely, this year's freshmen look eerily familiar.
For example, David Viti is a 6-foot-5 sharpshooter who made 249 career 3-pointers in high school, and the 6-foot-5 Jake Allsmiller just graduated after canning the second-most 3-pointers in Georgia Southern history.
Coincidence? Not hardly.
Now in his sixth season, head coach Mark Byington and his staff have built a program at Georgia Southern. Definitive signs exist in the numbers: logging 20 wins twice in the last four seasons, notching double-digit conference wins in each of the last four years – one of three Sun Belt teams to do so - and they are also visible in the recruiting scene.