The plan was always for there to be six, but it relied on so many contingencies involving the decisions of 17- and 18-year-olds that it could hardly be considered a plan at all.
Wichita State basketball entered Wednesday’s National Signing Day with four oral pledges, but the coaching staff refused to accept them as certainties until the fax machine fired up. The Shockers were also awaiting word from a lanky wing from Louisville, who had named them as one of his finalists.
By the time Alex Lomax announced he would reveal his college destination Wednesday evening, Wichita State’s plan had almost come to fruition.