Nick & Rod

[mcmwcat]

kstate'll be fine next year.  i'll save my pointless meltdowns for coaching searches.  maybe apportion a little to recruiting as well.

Please define 'fine.' While I don't think we'll be garbage, I don't see us being an NCAA tourney team.  I think we'll be okay, but its gonna be some time until we can make a run of any significance.

there are too many unknowns to predict well, but i'd guess 50/50ish on the tourney.  teams don't have to have a guy that takes 30% of its shots in order to be good.  pullen & kelly were incredibly important to the team, but their combined season long efficiency was pretty pedestrian.  and i have confidence (perhaps unreasonable confidence) that the staff can get just about any group of moderately talented players to defend pretty damn well.

and there were enough garbage teams in the tourney this year to give me hope that we'll at least be a bubble team next year.

[kougar24]

Looks like a team full of complementary players.

Which is what we just lost to.

Um, no.

But they do show what you can do with a bunch of 3 stars, a couple of borderline top 100 kid.

Yep. JUST DON'T RUN ANYONE OFF.  Wisconsin has been in the top 100 in kenpom's experience ranking every year since 2008. KSU's highest since then was 159 last year.

I agree completely, even if this is a fairly SLTH-y thought.

SLTH's are generally terrible at managing rosters. see: Wooly, McDermott, and even Doc to an extent.

Damn, mich. Owning this. Well done.

Er, I mean: Look at you, owning this thread.