The problem is the two pre-season BE players are said to be leaving the team after this season. One for certain. Going into this season we have zero idea of what contributions we would get for the transfers or the freshman. We didn’t have a point guard on the roster. The “promising” freshman are roll players at best. Neither of them has a semblance of a high level D1 offensive game.
Even after we beat Arizona, you still believe there is a chance we finish last.
How is a last place roster not in need of an overhaul? It would be different if our pre-season BE 2nd team players were underclass men. We would have something to build around, but they are not, this is their last year and we may finish last with them. Like it or not this is a rebuilding year, I wouldn’t be surprised if Williams and Earlington transfer next year.
I said early and often that we are better 2-5 tbis year. We have more depth, more size, and more experience than last year. I said the same thing looking to this season last year when Mullin was our coach.
I predicted we’d finish 6th or 7th in the conference and predicted McGriff would have 3x the stats of literally any other poster in the prediction thread. When he went down I changed my outlook.
You guys need to stop looking at place in the conference as any kind of reliable indicator. What’s the difference between 2-9? 6-10? Almost nothing when DePaul is good and no other team is dealing with catastrophic injuries/departures.
Our lack of PG play and poor half court execution leads me to believe that it will be enough of a factor to put as the bottom of that clusterf*ck with another team.