NCAA Basketball: Analyzing 2021 four-star center John Butler final 6 teams
Vanderbilt Commodores
Head coach Jerry Stackhouse is rebuilding the SEC program all throughout the roster, shoring up several weak spots. One of them is at the center position, which at the moment, features, just three-star incoming freshman Akeem Odusipe and Quentin Millora-Brown, who averaged 7.2 ppg and 5.9 rpg as a freshman at Rice before transferring and sitting out this past season with Vandy.
Butler would certainly have a pathway towards early playing time with the Commodores and could be a focal point of the offense in future time. But can Vanderbilt offer the four-star big man more than South Carolina or even the other four teams on this list? Being a team at the bottom of the conference hurts the recruitment of top-100 talent so this automatically puts Vandy in a tough spot to beat out the perceived favorites.
Wake Forest Demon Deacons
New head coach Steve Forbes has done an impressive job in the past couple of months rebuilding the Deacons roster after each of the top four players left the program. But all of the transfer pickups have come on the perimeter, with the team failing on landing a frontcourt asset this offseason.
The hope is that they can land a big man and Butler is one of the top regional options that isn’t looking at local powerhouses such as Duke or UNC. But besides having to deal with South Carolina, Wake Forest is building from the ground up. So besides immediate playing time, will this prospect be willing to go through the likely growing pains that are going to happen with this program?
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Without having any powerhouses on this list, each of the six finalists has to think that they have a chance at landing top-60 overall center John Butler. But if the rumors and talks are true, South Carolina Gamecock fans are going to be very happy this week. Yet as anyone who follows recruiting knows, a chance of the wind can happen at any time.