Saunders is a much better player. Last year Saunders was the 50th best player in Evan Miya’s player rankings. That would have been the third best player on UK last year. Pope is very much an analytics coach.

Saunders was a good player last year in the same conference Lohner played in, and a conference that is better than the conference UK plays in. Lohner wouldn’t have played much for BYU last year either.