My guess is that we have a shot to be a bubble/high seed type team next year, maybe in the vein of Oklahoma State or Michigan, where we can hit a stride near the end of the season after being left for dead by midseason, NIT not out of the question depending on breaks.
The development of Jackson, Young , and Babb giving quality minutes at the end of the season gives me hope, though it was disappointing to see them not get their shot tonight, but that was mostly due to us being in panic mode for nearly the entire game. Losing the production of Monte and Burton offensively is obviously huge, but we might have the opportunity to be even better defensively next year with the development of our young core of Jackson, Young, and Babb.
Wigginton and Lard could be the x factors in terms of how game ready they are could give us a huge boost to possibly make the tourney, vs barely making the NIT.
Best guess? We get better defensively, but much worse on offense, and we probably go to the NIT.