I feel like KSU is stuck in basketball purgatory... look ok, drop a game to a team like Tulsa, look decent, drop a bad conference game then beat an awesome B12 team, squeak into the NCAA tournament, get knocked out early and then tell ourselves that it's been a good year.
If everyone stays and develops 2018 could be pretty good, then we'll be back to missing the NCAA tournament and hearing 'Well, we've got a young team this year.'