Shortly after Connor Vanover committed to Oral Roberts, he told a reporter the appeal of starting anew in Tulsa. For one, coach Paul Mills had a void and ample minutes at the five-spot. And a familiar face was waiting for him: Isaac McBride, a former teammate at Little Rock’s Arkansas Baptist.
But there was a third leg to the pitch. And if you only knew Vanover from his two seasons at Arkansas, you might have suppressed a chuckle. “I’ll be able to do a lot of damage out pick-and-rolls, especially pick-and-pops,” he told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in May 2022.