I think there’s plenty of reason to hope we are improved this year. We certainly seem to have more talent and coaching upgrades on paper, but experience and continuity is so important in college basketball.

Also, every year there are teams with more talent than we have this coming year that so far worse than we did last year, even with proven coaching and experience. We aren’t close to the most talented team in the Big 12, and we have an unproven coach installing a brand new system.

With that said, let’s go win the Big 12 and get that 1 seed. I’m all for it!