ARIZONA BASKETBALL

Arizona lands another international commit in 4-star F Tibet Gorener

Apr 27, 2020, 9:21 PM

Arizona head coach Sean Miller speaks during the Pac-12 NCAA college basketball media day in San Fr...

Arizona head coach Sean Miller speaks during the Pac-12 NCAA college basketball media day in San Francisco, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019. (AP Photo/D. Ross Cameron)

(AP Photo/D. Ross Cameron)

The Arizona Wildcats now have four international commitments for the 2020 class, with four-star Turkish forward Tibet Gorener committing on Monday, per 247 Sports.

Gorener is ranked just outside 247 Sports’ top-100 at No. 147. He joins four-star forward Bennedict Mathurin, guard Kerr Kriisa and center Daniel Batcho as the international commits for Miller this upcoming season.

Four-star wing Dalen Terry is the lone signing by Miller in the United States.

It’s a big-time roster overhaul underway for Miller, who has freshmen Nico Mannion, Josh Green and Zeke Nnaji all declaring for the draft while losing some key seniors as well.

Of Arizona’s top players in minutes per game for 2019-20, seven of the eight are set to leave the program via either graduation or the draft.

Sophomore guard Jemarl Baker Jr., a transfer who joined UA last year from Kentucky, is the only one returning.

Junior big man Ira Lee will also contribute and so could point guard Brandon Williams, who sat out all of 2019-20 while battling a chronic knee issue.

Transfers will bring in most of the weight when it comes to experience in college ball.

Former five-star power forward Jordan Brown is eligible for next season after transferring from Nevada, and also coming in will be grad transfer and senior guard Terrell Brown from Seattle.

Point guard James Akinjo, a transfer from Georgetown, will be eligible for the second semester of the school year too.

Add on sophomore big man Christian Koloko, who impressed in spurts last season, and Miller all of a sudden has a full roster. The Athletic’s C.J. Holmes reports the team has only one roster spot left.

The difficult task ahead, though, is Miller having no obvious, top-tier talent and sorting through who his best options are out of a group that goes 12 deep.

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