Francis this game explicitly shows us where our basketball team is & where it ain’t. We’re “okay” but an NIT birth is the ceiling for this team & that’s going to be a stretch.
I think we're no worse than 7th in the conference, and with the good start and a little luck down the stretch, we can get to 5th. That alone is probably enough to put us in the bubble conversation.
The Big 12 is extremely top-heavy this year, but they've got to put 68 teams in the tournament. I don't think we're talented enough to be a bubble team in a typical year...but this is not a typical year. It's all about parity, so just do enough to get your name in the lottery and hope you get picked come Selection Sunday.
Our freshmen played a combined 60 minutes and scored 6 points on 2-11 shooting. At some point I expect them to contribute a lot more but the bigger question I have about the program is: who's doing the evaluating, and why can't we seem to consistently get players who provide valuable minutes as freshmen? Coming off of the debacle that was the 2018 class, this is turning into a serious issue.