Playing Alabama who was a final four team last year and returns a better team this year that was ranked as high as number 2 this year.

Duke with Cooper Flag is the number one team in the country with the number 1 draft pick who was outplaying the dream team when they played.

Then Houston a team that has already convincingly blown you at twice and owned your conference in games that looked like we had zero chance at winning.

Then potentially a national championship game vs A number 1 overall seed team like Auburn or SEC champ Florida with a 7foot9 guy or a team coached by Izzo or Calipari.

It just looks like the most daunting road possible from here. I can't imagine a tougher road.