bright future

I think we have every reason to be optimistic about the future. Assuming everyone comes back, we have four starters returning (in terms of total minutes played), plus the first two players off the bench. Two of those were in their first year of D1 play and might be expected to improve significantly.
Looking further down the road, of the four returning starters, the two leading scorers are only sophomores, and both of them really only started coming into their own offensively toward the end of the season. Our best pure shooter and the best big man prospect we have had in a long time are both freshmen. IF we can keep the incoming talent moving in the right direction with a couple of good recruits for next year, we could move the program forward a step from where it has been. We have been, normally, in the top half of the conference over the last eight years, but we have not yet moved into the elite at the top (usually WKU, USA and ULL). We will have to improve the talent, because those schools always seem to have outstanding players, and hustle alone cannot always overcome the talent discrepancy.