Welcome Lancona

I missed this a couple of days ago. From the PD:

Tanner Lancona, a 6-foot-8 power forward from Southern California, has made an oral commitment to St. Louis U. Lancona had originally committed to Washington State, but was released by what was described as a mutual agreement. He chose SLU over Kansas State, Colorado State and BYU. He averaged 16.6 points and eight rebounds at Tesoro High in Las Flores, Calif., in southern Orange County, and can, with a game reminiscent of Cody Ellis, can[sic] shoot 3-pointers, run the floor and rebound.

This is interesting for a couple of reasons. For starters it is nice to see SLU be able to recruit a kid outside of our "normal" areas of influence. It is particularly nice when SLU can compete against and best bigger name programs from bigger name conferences. (Though the potential to add the Big East name to our recruiting efforts may be helping already.)

Encouraging.