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Can we get some expectations for next season? Anything that anyone wants to see happen or looking forward to? This board has been pretty dead lately.

Well, we lose three senior floor leaders. Furthmore, we loose Nate Miller, put the team on his back and delivered W's down the stretch.

However, our overall talent level may be going way up.

Goins, Graves, and Calhoun will be available, and all of these guys have major upsides. However, none of them have proven much on a D1 level. They've been praised highly. It will be exciting to see how these guys pan out.

Krauss and Crawford are hard to eye-ball as well. I've seen players with Krauss' pedigree star in the conference and ride the bench. Very short players like Crawford must be exceptionally good in their specialization to establish a role in the rotation.

McElroy seems like the type of player who will enter the rotation immediately. His track record against tough city league competition, and his specific skill set, make me speculate that he'll play 10-20 minutes at the 4 and 5.

Overall talent doesn't buy you much if there's no chemistry or will to win. Nate Miller, along the lines of Stacey, Reimold, and McLeod, demonstrated the that trait. Who will do that for us this year? Jak? Thomas? Knight? Marcshall?

If things go well, we could have a 10-12 person rotation (like Buffalo and Akron), great depth, and great competition for playing time.

We'll win between 15-25 games next year!

I peg the forecast as partly cloudy. We do lose Miller, which is going to definitely hurt our scoring and our wing, but I could see the guards and some of the newer players stepping up. We do return our front line guys, so we'll have plenty of size. The quality of our guardplay without Moten, Clements, and Miller will determine how this season goes. Jakubowski in particular needs to step up and really command the offense at the PG spot.

I look for Chris Knight to step up his scoring average. With him moving to the wing he will have more opportunities to score points. I hope our post players can average more points as well. Marschall and Polk should be averaging in double figure also. I think this team can be successful because with good chemistry and cohesiveness.