The Stig
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Not only is that false, Wake has had a strong history of non-5 star players contributing significantly in their first years, including McKie. Kendall Marshall was a 4-star and Stoglin was 3-star and they joined 5-stars Barnes and Leslie as All-ACC.
Our freshman class was around the same level or above as plenty of players over the years who contributed as freshmen from guys like O'Kelley and JGray to Darius and Josh Howard to more recently Teague and Johnson.
You're right aside from the fact that you're looking at a pair of freshman helping out versus four freshman getting major minutes. We had regular role players with a good deal of experience filling the gaps and covering up a lot of freshman mistakes. We didn't have that this year.