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[QUOTE="Excalibur, post: 3350978, member: 62"]
I would say we're ahead of schedule as well.   Maybe not way ahead, but ahead.  I didn't expect to be beating Florida and giving Xavier all they could handle early in year 2.  While St. Joes did expose some deficiencies, one of the major ones (a go-to wing scorer who can stop a run) seems to have been addressed with Bouknight coming off of his suspension.  We'll know more once we get into conference play and teams have more material to scout us with.  I expected us to be an NIT team this year.  If we're competing for an NCAA birth, then we are ahead of schedule.

The difference has been player development and recruiting.  The change in Adams has been huge, and as responsible for our improvement as the addition of Bouknight.  Whaley has gone from filler to serviceable.  From a recruiting standpoint, two of our best three athletes are new guys.

We still have some deficiencies.  A lack of depth and strength in the front court is the biggest, and one that conference foes will try to exploit.  We have two reliable three point shooters, and a bunch of others that can be hot or cold on any given night.  If all of them happen to be cold, we are pretty easy to defend.  The good thing is that we have won some games with defense when the offense wasn't clicking.
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