Without any Tyrese Halliburton injury the guys almost certainly beat Florida A&M. We win one of those games above and we’re sitting at 14-15 with 2 winnable games coming up this week and a winnable game in the big 12 tourney. It’s Plausible they could have made the NIT, not probable.
We would have been on the cusp of the NIT is like saying we were a play or two away from winning the National title in 2014.
I don’t think people fully grasp the non-competitive nature of things right now. Five times in the last 20 years have we had double digit losses by 10 points or more.
2002-03 (10 losses by DD) LE 16-14
2007-08 (13 losses by DD) GM 14-18
2008-09 (11 losses by DD) GM 15-17
2017-18 (11 losses by DD) SP 13-18
2019-20 (10 losses by DD) SP 12-17
In none of the years above have we ever had more than 3 losses by more than 20 points. This year there are five of those losses to date. Our average margin of defeat this year 13.4 ppg versus 12.9 in 2017-18. Kansas State is currently 9-20 overall but there average margin of defeat is 9.1 per game. Of their 20 losses only 8 are by DD and only one (at KU) was decided by 20 points or more.
We are not close....we need immediate grad transfer help at the PG position, immediate production by at least two of those freshmen and we need at least two of the current players to transfer out this spring so we can bring in more immediate help.