NASHVILLE—As he emerges from the shade to the sun-covered side of the floor at Charleston’s Credit One Stadium, Bangot Dak lunges for the over the head outlet pass from Berke Buyutuncel and prepares to demonstrate exactly why Vanderbilt had him at the top of its transfer portal recruiting board.

Dak is about to do something that nobody in the country at his size may be able to.

He catches the ball at halfcourt, rips it in front of him, dribbles it twice with his left hand, switches to his right hand and beats Virginia big man Johann Grunloh to the basket. He flips the ball off the glass, watches as it cuts through the net and moves on. It’s as if this is normal. For Dak, it is.

“He’ll continue to surprise not only us, but also other teams, with how deep his bag is,” Vanderbilt forward Sebastian Williams-Adams told Vandy on SI . “Certain days it’s something new he brings. One day, it'll be that he’s getting past us, going past guys offensively off the dribble.…