THE GOOD NEWS
The team returns the WAC Freshman of the Year (freshman G Armon Johnson), arguably the league's most talented player (sophomore C JaVale McGee) and will bring in a McDonald's All-American (Luke Babbitt). In a league that was senior heavy this season, Nevada will have to be considered one of two early favorites two win the league title next year.

THE BAD NEWS
Like Nick Fazekas and Ramon Sessions before him, senior G Marcelus Kemp's graduation will be tough for the Wolf Pack to overcome. He was the team's best scorer and nobody else on the team was a consistent scoring threat.

What is worse, some mock draft boards project sophomore center JaVale McGee as high as a top-10 NBA draft pick if he leaves school this year.

KEY RETURNEES
Depending on his status in the NBA draft, 7-foot sophomore center JaVale McGee could, as a junior next year, be the WAC's best player. He averaged a team-high 7.3 rebounds per game and his 14.1 points per game was second best on the Wolf Pack.

Freshman point guard Armon Johnson was the WAC's Freshman of the Year. Johnson averaged 14.1 points per game in league action and shot an efficient 54 percent in those 16 regular season games.

ROSTER REPORT

--G Marcelus Kemp averaged an even 20.0 points per game for Nevada in the 2007-08 season and will leave the school as its second-highest scorer of all-time with 1,939 points.

Kemp also graduates as the Wolf Pack's all-time leader in 3 pointers made with 227.

Every bit as impressive as the stats, Kemp leaves behind a winning legacy. Nevada played in the postseason in each of Kemp's six seasons (he had a redshirt season and one medical redshirt season).

--Sophomore C JaVale McGee averaged 14.1 points per game (10th best in WAC), 7.3 rebounds (second in WAC), shot 52.9 percent from the field (eighth in WAC) and had 92 blocks for a 2.79 blocks per game average (first in WAC).

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