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I'm going to be unbearable in Cleveland if one or both teams win next year. If you see a giant banner hanging from the second level of Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse with BACK TO BACK TO BACK or BACK TO BACK while Whitesell or FLJ cut down nets you know who is responsible.

Correct. If they would have won 2 of the 7 home losses(Akron + NIU/BG/KENT) they would have been the 1 seed, NIT bid, and no Miami. winning 2 of 7 and going 12-5 at home is NOT much to ask for. They went two years without losing. In fact 12-5 is an average MAC home record. In fact UB was better on road/neutral floor than they were in their own college gym. Astonishing.

Everyone looks really happy to me, Segu, Williams, Mballa and Graves are posting on social media about a big comeback next year. I’m confident our core group will stay, we might lose a few off our bench but I don’t see a mass migration happening.

It wasn’t a specific win/loss benchmark overall. It was NOT 7 home losses (7 of those in favored matchups). It was NOT missing Cleveland for the first time in since 2003. It was NOT being out played by Dartmouth and Army (again, both at home). It was NOT the lack of energy, focus and defense that we saw this year. It was NOT the lack of improvement in just about every facet of the game that the team struggled with to start the year. It was NOT the change in general energy and swagger surrounding the program with Hurley and Oats.

Which is why I laughed at the whole situation. As I have said in other post, Oats is swimming or trying to swim in the deep end of the recurring pool (4/5 star players and one and done players). We had gotten to the middle of the pool which is why we initially landed Hawkins. But it’s clear he isn’t the caliber player Oats needed for the SEC. Not a knock on the kid...Oats needs impact players right away. He has no time to develop. Had he come to UB he could’ve gotten minutes and learned by doing. Not wasting on the bench.