GLASGOW — Ray Harper has some advice for Western Kentucky fans next season.

“Make sure you get a game program,” the WKU coach said Tuesday during an appearance at Colton’s Steak House and Grill in Glasgow. “Hopefully, we can make some more money for the men’s basketball program and start selling game programs, because you’re going to need one.

“But I think after you watch us a couple of times, you’ll pick out a couple favorites and you’ll be back.”

The Hilltoppers’ 2015-16 roster will bear little resemblance to the one before it, save for five returning players. WKU confirmed Tuesday that two rising sophomore guards, DJ Clayton and Avery Patterson, have left a roster already with few recognizable names.

WKU is expected to add 10 new players to next year’s team with eight scholarship signees and two walk-ons. But Harper was clear Tuesday there could be more.

“I would say we’re not done,” Harper said. “I can tell you we’re not done.”

Harper broke down his eight signees for the red-clad crowd gathered at Colton’s, noting that “we feel like we filled about every need that we felt like we had.”

Among those needs: A true point guard, more size in the post and better athleticism to survive an improving Conference USA.

“The change from the Sun Belt to Conference USA, anytime you make a change in conferences, that first year there’s an adjustment,” Harper said. “I think I know what we need to be successful in this league, and I think we have some real good pieces moving forward.”

Harper once again sang the praises of his three November signees – high school guards Chris McNeal (the touted “true point guard”) and Marlon Hunter and junior-college star Fredrick Edmond – but the bulk of his talk was saved for the five recruits he’s secured this spring.

The one perhaps not expected to be discussed just yet was Illinois graduate transfer guard Aaron Cosby, who will join the Toppers in August after graduating.

Cosby, a 6-3, 200-pound Louisville native, played one season with the Illini after two seasons at Seton Hall. He’s eligible immediately for his final season.

“We feel like he’s a guy who can step in and give us what T.J. Price gave us over the last four years – a guy who can make shots, a guy with some toughness and a guy who can sway and play some point guard if need be,” Harper said.

The most recent signee is Nathan Smith, a 7-1, 235-pound English center from Barking Abbey School in London.

Smith, who gives WKU two English 7-footers along with junior Ben Lawson, signed Friday after visiting Bowling Green in May.

“Different than Ben Lawson,” Harper said. “Ben is a lot leaner. Ben is more of a four man. Nathan is a true five in every sense of the word. He likes contact. He knows where his best basketball is played, and it’s in the paint. … When Nathan came on his visit, he’s at least 2 inches taller than Ben. He is one large human being, and we feel like by the time he’s ready to go and ready to start playing, we can get him up to 240, 245. But he’s not a kid that’s slow.

“He’s good in transition, he moves well, and like all big kids, his best basketball is ahead of him.”

The Tops also picked up two JUCO prospects in Phabian Glasco, a 6-7 forward from Connors State College, and Anton Waters, a 6-6 forward from Gulf Coast State College.

“When you look at his stats, the biggest thing that will jump out with Phabian is his ability to rebound the basketball,” Harper said. “I think he had two games last year where he did not have at least 10 rebounds. He had one game with 25 rebounds, which is difficult to do. I think defensive rebounding and toughness are the main things he brings to our team next year.”

Harper added of Waters: “The best way I can describe him is an athlete. He plays above the rim. He’s tough, and he will help us as a guy who’s not afraid to do the little things, the dirty work – chase loose balls, grab offensive rebounds. He can play a little bit on the perimeter, but more of a four, can play some three.”

WKU kept its European pipeline strong with Smith and Latvian guard Kristaps Gluditis, a 6-4 shooting guard who played at Get Better Academy in the Czech Republic.

Gluditis won’t join the Tops this summer because he’s playing for Latvia’s U20 team in the European Championship, Harper said. He’s from the same hometown (Riga, Latvia) as WKU senior forward Aleksej Rostov.

“I don’t know anyone who was more excited when we signed Kris than Aleks Rostov – a fellow Latvian joining him on the team,” Harper said. “When we watched game tape on him, the more and more we watched him, the thing that stood out was just an unbelievable shooter. Some of the European contacts that I’ve talked to felt he was the second-best shooter in all of Europe.

“The best shooter, they felt like, was a young man who signed a $1 million-dollar contract in Italy. He gives us a college-ready body.”

Harper said all of the players except for Gluditis, Waters, Cosby and Smith should be on campus starting Monday to begin class and the allotted two hours of workouts with coaches per week, in addition to strength work.

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