uniftw wrote:scotte101 wrote:In no certain order:
MSU was picked to win the conference.
We have a great roster loaded with upperclassmen.
We have a potential NBA draft pick on our team.
Wichita is no longer in the conference.
Other than the NBA player that sounds like a bunch of wishful maroon colored thinking
Yes, you have 10 JRs and SRs, but to call them a great/loaded roster is objectively a stretch. I'll grant you Alize but:
Rousseau left the the team last season. He was a nice, above average player before he left the team at 11 points 2 boards 3 assists
Rhodes was average, at best. Shot 42% as a forward. 7 points 3 boards
J.T. Miller wasn't on the roster but appears to be a slightly above average player
Bhullar averaged like 2 points per game at 7'2 in the WAC
Dixon was average to slightly above average at 8 points 2 boards
Kreklow is a good/average MVC player
Church is slighly above average to good
Scurry and Burd are JUCO transfers
MSU being picked to win the conference was based on a S ton of speculation that Lusk could actually coach a team and develop athletes in to basketball players. Something he hasn't been able to show he can do.
MSU has as much/less proven players on their roster as UNI does and UNI was poo pooed by literally everyone outside of Cedar Falls because of how unproven the team was without Morgan.
I've been pleasantly surprised by the number of wins the conference has this year OOC. It's a good thing. There are some losses though that just leave me in complete awe though. ORU and NDSU in the same season? I know MSU got NDSU back, but at home to NDSU is mind bottling.
Even Valpo's loss to Purdue. It's not that they lost. It's how they lost.
Things certainly don't look as dark as they did before the season, but a bunch of teams have a ton to prove yet....including my Panthers.
I'm all about the maroon colored thinking