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In a world of college basketball where high school recruits are more and more often extending their recruitments into the winter of their senior years, combo-forward Cole Swider bucked this trend, announcing the Wildcats as his choice in the summer of 2017. The second member of Jay Wright’s ninth-ranked recruiting class after fellow forward Brandon Slater, Swider’s early signature provided a sense of security going into a season that was known pretty much from the start that fellow wing and eventual lottery pick, Mikal Bridges, would soon find himself a new home address.