Smith originally committed to play college baseball for Missouri as a right-handed pitcher. However, in July 2016 Smith decommitted from Missouri given Tim Jamieson's retirement and because of an injury to the flexor pronator tendon in his throwing elbow. Prior to switching his athletic focus to basketball, Smith featured a fastball in the low-90s and was considered a major league baseball prospect out of high school.
According to wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Smith_(basketball)
We hire CM on March 15, 2017. On April 26, 2017 Smith announced he was going to Illinois. Did we have a scholarship at that point? He was going to Mizzou for baseball but not considering MU for basketball?
Edited by Tiger_1995 at 17:13:57 on 01/23/18