If you were to have designed in a laboratory a foundational five-man class for a new Indiana basketball coach in the 21st century, it would have looked a lot like the national top-10 ranked group Archie Miller signed in 2018.
In itself it constituted a modern basketball lineup with a pure point guard, three wings who were prolific high school scorers listed between 6-6 and 6-7, and a high-energy 6-8 forward who could work as a small-ball five man. That sort of length is also a prerequisite for the pack-line defense Miller brought to Bloomington, as Virginia’s best teams under coach Tony Bennett have been built on those body types.