The impact of the two departing players on the 2015-16 Vanderbilt team was overstated.
Yesterday, Damian Jones joined Wade Baldwin IV in adding his name to the 2016 NBA Draft. Both have reportedly signed with an agent, removing any possibility that either one will return to Vanderbilt in 2016-17. What should Commodore fans expect to be the impact of these decisions?
Baldwin and Jones were less important than commonly assumed.
That's not to say that they were unimportant. But when many people talked about the 2015-16 Commodores, the discussion centered around "three NBA prospects" (Baldwin and Jones along with, presumably, Luke Kornet.